About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
Materials in Nuclear Energy Systems (MiNES) 2025
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| Symposium
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Materials in Nuclear Energy Systems (MiNES) 2025
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| Presentation Title |
High-Throughput Heavy Ion Irradiation and Characterization Methods for Efficient Study of Void Swelling at End-of-Life Doses |
| Author(s) |
Nathan Curtis, Ryan Leung, Nate Eklof, Zack Rielley, Adrien Couet |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Nathan Curtis |
| Abstract Scope |
When designing and optimizing novel materials for structural nuclear applications, characterizing irradiation-induced void swelling is critical. However, traditional transmission electron microscopy (TEM)-based methods are costly and time intensive, limiting the number of design iterations feasible. As a means of expediting this process and enabling large-scale studies, an accelerated methodology for quantifying irradiation-induced void swelling from high-dose heavy ion irradiations has been developed. Using 2-dimensional cross-section images taken with a focused ion beam and scanning electron microscope, mathematical methods for calculating volumetric void swelling have found relatively consistent agreement with TEM-based data in a case study on heavy ion-irradiated stainless steel 304. This, in concert with a high-throughput ion irradiation system at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, generates initial void swelling data orders of magnitude faster, enabling down selection from large-scale irradiation studies at to guide more efficient usage of high-detail characterization techniques such as TEM and atom probe tomography. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Undecided |