Materials subjected to high dose irradiation by energetic particles often experience severe
damage in the form of drastic increase of defect density, and significant degradation of their …

Fusion materials research started in the early 1970s following the observation of the
degradation of irradiated materials used in the first commercial fission reactors. The …

Nuclear power currently provides about 13% of electrical power worldwide, and has
emerged as a reliable baseload source of electricity. A number of materials challenges must …

Proposed fusion and advanced (Generation IV) fission energy systems require high-
performance materials capable of satisfactory operation up to neutron damage levels …

Structural materials represent the key for containment of nuclear fuel and fission products as
well as reliable and thermodynamically efficient production of electrical energy from nuclear …

Advanced fission and future fusion energy will require new high-performance structural
alloys with outstanding properties that are sustained under long-term service in ultrasevere …

Pure tungsten samples have been neutron irradiated in HFIR at 90–850° C to 0.03–2.2 dpa.
A dispersed barrier hardening model informed by the available microstructure data has …

Silicon carbide has enjoyed both fundamental study and practical application since the early
days of nuclear materials science. In the past decade, with the increased interest in …

A fusion nuclear science facility (FNSF) could play an important role in the development of
fusion energy by providing the nuclear environment needed to develop fusion materials and …

We present an investigation of systematic trends for the self-interstitial atom (SIA) defect
behavior in body-centered cubic (bcc) transition metals using density-functional calculations …