About this Abstract |
Meeting |
2022 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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Symposium
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Synergistic Irradiation, Corrosion, and Microstructural Evolution in Nuclear Materials
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Presentation Title |
The Coupled Effects of Irradiation and Corrosion on Materials |
Author(s) |
Blas P. Uberuaga |
On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Blas P. Uberuaga |
Abstract Scope |
Within a nuclear reactor, materials experience multiple extreme environments, including corrosion and irradiation. While there have been decades of research examining these two environments individually, there has been relatively little work devoted to studying the coupled effects of these two environments on the evolution of materials. FUTURE – Fundamental Understanding of Transport Under Reactor Extremes – is an Energy Frontier Research Center dedicated to understanding how these two extreme environments couple. In this talk, we provide an update on recent progress from the Center. We highlight recent experimental results that shed light on how radiation damage effects mass transport and, ultimately, how those defects impact corrosion. Our computational results provide insight into the fundamental mechanisms that drive this coupling and suggest conditions over which this coupling is enhanced and when it is negligible. Together, our work provides new insight into the coupled effects of these two extreme environments. |
Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
Keywords |
Other, Nuclear Materials, Modeling and Simulation |