Fe-Cr ferritic-martensitic (FM) steels are promising structural material candidates for fusion
and advanced fission reactors due to their attractive mechanical properties and volumetric …

Cavity swelling, due to three-dimensional clustering of vacancies, is an undesirable isotropic
volume expansion of materials under irradiation. This phenomenon occurs above stage-III …

The majority of data on the irradiation response of ferritic/martensitic steels has been derived
from simple free-standing specimens irradiated in experimental assemblies under well …

Precipitation strengthening has been utilized to improve the properties of metallic materials
so far. Since interactions between precipitates and dislocations are micro-mechanisms …

Single-beam, dual-beam and sequential iron-and/or helium-ion irradiations are widely
accepted to emulate more application-relevant but hardly accessible irradiation conditions of …

Defect microstructures formed in ion-irradiated metals, for example iron or tungsten, often
exhibit patterns of spatially ordered nano-scale dislocation loops. We show that such …

A fuel test assembly known as the ACO-3 duct made out of a normalized and fully tempered
ferritic/martensitic steel (HT-9) was previously irradiated in the Fast Flux Test Reactor Facility …

He bubbles are characteristic microstructures under fusion reactor conditions. They
approach and coalesce through their own migration, which significantly impacts the …

Irradiation flux effects are directly related to the behavior of point defects, and it is
challenging to observe them experimentally. During combined irradiation, the interstitial …

Molecular dynamics (MD) methods are used to study nanosized helium (He) bubble
coalescence process in tungsten (W) at various temperatures relevant to fusion conditions …