About this Abstract |
Meeting |
2024 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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Symposium
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Irradiation Testing: Facilities, Capabilities, and Experimental Designs
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Presentation Title |
Developing Irradiation Experiments to Enable Characterization and Qualification of Advanced Nuclear Materials |
Author(s) |
Richard Howard |
On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Richard Howard |
Abstract Scope |
Irradiation experiments are critical for exploring behavior, performance limits, and qualification paradigms for nuclear materials. Currently there is strong interest in advanced nuclear technologies beyond conventional light water reactors. Advanced reactors generally perform under unique and harsh operating environments that must be reproducible in irradiation experiments to expose materials of interest to prototypic conditions. These constraints, combined with limited research reactor availability, stymie progress in nuclear materials research. However, such challenges tend to foster innovations. Various sectors of the research community must work together to rethink irradiation experiments that are flexible, rapidly deployable, and capable of imparting a wide range of conditions on material specimens to advance the state of the art. This work describes current efforts to develop new experiment platforms that enable pragmatic and high-quality materials research as well as provides a discussion to outline future experiment innovation needs. |
Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
Keywords |
Mechanical Properties, Nuclear Materials, Other |