Predicting displacement damage for ion irradiation: Origin of the overestimation of vacancy production in SRIM full-cascade calculations

YR Lin, SJ Zinkle, CJ Ortiz, JP Crocombette… - Current Opinion in Solid …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ion irradiation and implantation have wide applications that demand accurate determination
of displacement damage profile and distribution of implanted ion concentration. The …

Irradiation damage concurrent challenges with RAFM and ODS steels for fusion reactor first-wall/blanket: a review

A Bhattacharya, SJ Zinkle, J Henry… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Reduced activation ferritic martensitic (RAFM) and oxide dispersion strengthened (ODS)
steels are the most promising candidates for fusion first-wall/blanket (FW/B) structures. The …

On the history and status of reactor pressure vessel steel ductile to brittle transition temperature shift prediction models

GR Odette, T Yamamoto, TJ Williams… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper melds an overview of the history of Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV) embrittlement
research, focusing on predicting ductile-to-brittle transition temperature shifts (ΔT), along …

Effects of appearance characteristics on the mechanical properties of defective SWCNTs: using finite element methods and molecular dynamics simulation

A Eyvazian, C Zhang, F Musharavati, A Farazin… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
In this article, finite element methods and molecular dynamics method were employed to
simulate covalent bonds between carbon atoms in nanotubes with a linear beam element …

Recommendation for computing neutron irradiation damage from evaluated nuclear data

S Chen, D Bernard - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Accurate evaluation of displacement damage is important for studying the nuclear materials
after irradiation. The present work investigates neutron-induced displacement damage …

[HTML][HTML] Estimation of reliable displacements-per-atom based on athermal-recombination-corrected model in radiation environments at nuclear fission, fusion, and …

Y Iwamoto, S Meigo, S Hashimoto - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2020 - Elsevier
The displacements-per-atom (dpa) is widely used as an exposure unit to predict the
operating lifetime of materials in radiation environments. Because the athermal …

Defect evolution of neutron irradiated ITER grade tungsten after annealing

D Papadakis, K Mergia, E Manios, V Chatzikos… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The microstructural evolution of neutron irradiated tungsten (W) after annealing and its
correlation with the corresponding mechanical properties provides valuable insight on the …

Development of nuclear de-excitation model EBITEM Ver. 2

T Ogawa, S Hashimoto, T Sato - Journal of Nuclear Science and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The gamma de-excitation model of the general-purpose radiation transport code Particle
and Heavy Ion Transport code System, called the Evaluated Nuclear Structure Data File …

Study of neutron capture reaction-induced displacement damage cross section and KERMA factor

S Chen - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research …, 2022 - Elsevier
Radiative neutron capture reaction is generally the main reaction inducing atomic
displacements and nuclear heating for low incident neutron energy, even though its …

Readdressing nanocavity diffusion in tungsten

A De Backer, A Souidi, EA Hodille… - Frontiers in Nuclear …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In nuclear fusion (ITER and the future DEMO), those components that face the plasma are
exposed to high temperature and irradiation which, in the long term, modifies their thermal …