Nuclear Materials under Irradiation

1. Auflage Dezember 2023
320 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
At every stage of the fuel cycle, the materials used are at the heart of nuclear energy safety issues. These materials, which range from steel to polymers, including ceramics, glass, concrete and graphite, are submitted to extreme stresses combining mechanical, thermal and irradiation constraints.
The objective of this book is to provide a basis for the research of nuclear materials subjected to irradiation, with the desire to contextualize them in the industrial environment. Therefore, most of the chapters are co-authored and contain a mix of basic and applied research. The reader will find chapters on nuclear reactor materials (structural materials, neutron absorbers, moderators and nuclear fuel) and on materials in waste management (glass, concrete and organic materials). These material chapters are complemented by more general information on defects and their creation, radiolysis and irradiation and characterization tools.
Serge BOUFFARD and Nathalie MONCOFFRE
Chapter 1 Irradiation Defects 1
Serge BOUFFARD and David SIMÉONE
Chapter 2 Metal Alloys 47
Philippe PAREIGE and Christophe DOMAIN
Chapter 3 Ceramics within PWRs 87
Christine DELAFOY, Frederico GARRIDO and Yves PIPON
Chapter 4 Nuclear Graphite 125
Nicolas BÉRERD and Laurent PETIT
Chapter 5 Nuclear Glasses 151
Magaly TRIBET
Chapter 6 Radiolysis of Porous Materials and Radiolysis at Interfaces 181
Sophie LE CAËR and Jean-Philippe RENAULT
Chapter 7 Concrete and Cement Materials under Irradiation 201
Pascal BOUNIOL
Chapter 8 Organic Materials 215
Emmanuel BALANZAT and Muriel FERRY
Chapter 9 Irradiation Tools 251
Serge BOUFFARD and Nathalie MONCOFFRE
Chapter 10 Characterization of Irradiation Damage 269
Aurélie GENTILS, Stéphanie JUBLOT-LECLERC and Patrick SIMON
References 289
List of Authors 293
Index 295
Nathalie Moncoffre is a Research Director at the CNRS, specializing in the aging of nuclear materials. In particular, she has studied the behavior of fuel, metallic alloys, absorbers and graphite under irradiation. She is the manager at the EMIR&A: the French national network of accelerators for irradiation and analysis of molecules and materials.