Radiation damage in nanostructured materials

X Zhang, K Hattar, Y Chen, L Shao, J Li, C Sun… - Progress in Materials …, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

The origin and formation of oxygen inclusions in austenitic stainless steels manufactured by laser powder bed fusion

P Deng, M Karadge, RB Rebak, VK Gupta… - Additive …, 2020 - Elsevier
The origins of nano-scale oxide inclusions in 316L austenitic stainless steel (SS)
manufactured by laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) was investigated by quantifying the …

Development of next generation tempered and ODS reduced activation ferritic/martensitic steels for fusion energy applications

SJ Zinkle, JL Boutard, DT Hoelzer, A Kimura… - Nuclear …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Reduced activation ferritic/martensitic steels are currently the most technologically mature
option for the structural material of proposed fusion energy reactors. Advanced next …

Research progress of ODS FeCrAl alloys–a review of composition design

X Wang, X Shen - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
After the Fukushima nuclear accident, the development of new accident-tolerant fuel
cladding materials has become a research hotspot around the world. Due to its outstanding …

An integrated model for materials in a fusion power plant: transmutation, gas production, and helium embrittlement under neutron irradiation

MR Gilbert, SL Dudarev, S Zheng, LW Packer… - Nuclear …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The high-energy, high-intensity neutron fluxes produced by the fusion plasma will have a
significant life-limiting impact on reactor components in both experimental and commercial …

On the thermal coarsening and transformation of nanoscale oxide inclusions in 316L stainless steel manufactured by laser powder bed fusion and its influence on …

P Deng, M Song, J Yang, Q Pan, S McAllister… - Materials Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The thermal evolution of nanoscale oxide inclusions in 316L stainless steel (SS)
manufactured by laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing (AM) was explored. The …

Ultrastrong nanocrystalline steel with exceptional thermal stability and radiation tolerance

C Du, S Jin, Y Fang, J Li, S Hu, T Yang, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Nanocrystalline (NC) metals are stronger and more radiation-tolerant than their coarse-
grained (CG) counterparts, but they often suffer from poor thermal stability as nanograins …

Effects of Zr and/or Ti addition on the morphology, crystal and metal/oxide interface structures of nanoparticles in FeCrAl-ODS steels

TX Yang, ZX Li, CJ Zhou, YC Xu, P Dou - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
FeCrAl oxide dispersion strengthened (ODS) steel is one of the most promising candidate
cladding materials for Generation IV nuclear reactors due to its superior high temperature …

Alloy selection for accident tolerant fuel cladding in commercial light water reactors

RB Rebak - Metallurgical and Materials Transactions E, 2015 - Springer
As a consequence of the March 2011 events at the Fukushima site, the US congress asked
the Department of Energy (DOE) to concentrate efforts on the development of nuclear fuels …

Tensile strength improvement of martensitic ODS steels with Zr and Hf additions

X Zhou, G Li, X Shen, Y Liu - Materials Science and Engineering: A, 2022 - Elsevier
Aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of Zr and Hf additions on oxide particle refinement and
tensile strength improvement of transformable oxide dispersion strengthened (ODS) steels …