Viewpoint Set on Nuclear Materials Science

Katoh, Yutai; Huang, Qing; Han, Young-Hwan; Risbud, Subhash

doi:10.1016/j.scriptamat.2017.08.028

Title: Viewpoint Set on Nuclear Materials Science

Abstract

Materials science has historically played critical roles in developing today’s nuclear energy systems. The current mainstream nuclear materials such as the zirconium alloys for fuels and core components and the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) steels were essential enabling materials for present day nuclear power and they undergo continued science-based fine tuning. Discovery of void swelling and other radiation effect phenomena in a fast neutron spectrum is largely responsible for the development of modern nuclear steels with enhanced radiation tolerance and, to a certain extent, the struggle of fast spectrum reactor development. Understandings the effects of neutron irradiation and the operating thermochemical environment in heat-resistant alloys, core graphite, and SiC-coated particle fuels have enabled the high temperature helium cooled reactors as a passively safe nuclear energy technology that is now anticipating mass deployment.

Authors:

Katoh, Yutai ^[1]; Huang, Qing ^[2]; Han, Young-Hwan ^[3]; Risbud, Subhash ^[4]

Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Materials Science and Technology Division
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Ningbo (China). Engineering Lab. of Specialty Fibers and Nuclear Energy Materials. Ningbo Inst. of Industrial Technology
Wuhan Univ. of Technology (China). International School of Materials Science and Engineering
Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering

Publication Date:: 2017-10-04

Research Org.:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1474708

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Scripta Materialia

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 143; Journal ID: ISSN 1359-6462

Publisher:: Elsevier

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS

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  title        = {Viewpoint Set on Nuclear Materials Science},

  author       = {Katoh, Yutai and Huang, Qing and Han, Young-Hwan and Risbud, Subhash},

  abstractNote = {Materials science has historically played critical roles in developing today’s nuclear energy systems. The current mainstream nuclear materials such as the zirconium alloys for fuels and core components and the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) steels were essential enabling materials for present day nuclear power and they undergo continued science-based fine tuning. Discovery of void swelling and other radiation effect phenomena in a fast neutron spectrum is largely responsible for the development of modern nuclear steels with enhanced radiation tolerance and, to a certain extent, the struggle of fast spectrum reactor development. Understandings the effects of neutron irradiation and the operating thermochemical environment in heat-resistant alloys, core graphite, and SiC-coated particle fuels have enabled the high temperature helium cooled reactors as a passively safe nuclear energy technology that is now anticipating mass deployment.},

  doi          = {10.1016/j.scriptamat.2017.08.028},

  journal      = {Scripta Materialia},

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  volume       = 143,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2017},

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