Material Challenges in Current and Future Nuclear Technologies

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Part I. Fuels:
1. Effect of Ce4+ and Th4+ ion substitution in uranium dioxide Rakesh K. Behera and Chaitanya S. Deo
2. Spark plasma sintering of fuel cermets for nuclear reactor applications Yang Zhong, Robert C. O'Brien, Steven D. Howe, Nathan D. Jerred, Kristopher Schwinn, Laura Sudderth and Joshua Hundley
3. Atomistic simulation of nuclear fuels Matthias Krack
Part II. Radiation Effects:
4. The role of Sn, Zr and Hf in the radiation damage in II, III, IV and V pyrochlores Karl R. Whittle, Massey de los Reyes, Mark G. Blackford, Nestor J. Zaluzec and Gregory R. Lumpkin
5. Structural features in fluorite compounds relevant for nuclear applications Gianguido Baldinozzi, Lionel Desgranges, David Simeone, Dominique Gosset and Laurence Luneville
6. Evolution of oxide particles during fabrication processes of 12Cr ODS steel Xiaodong Mao, Tae Kyu Kim, Sung-Soo Kim, Chang Hee Han, Kyu Hwan Oh and Jinsung Jang
7. Calculation of migration rates of vacancies and divacancies in a-iron using transition path sampling biased with a Lyapunov indicator Massimiliano Picciani, Manuel Athènes and Mihai-Cosmin Marinica
8. Radiation growth of HCP metals under cascade damage conditions Stanislav I. Golubov, Alexander V. Barashev and Roger E. Stoller
9. In situ TEM ion irradiation and atmospheric heating of cladding materials K. Hattar, S. Rajasekhara and B. G. Clark
10. Effects of displacing radiation on graphite observed using in situ transmission electron microscopy J. A. Hinks, A. N. Jones and S. E. Donnelly
11. Copper (II) phthalocyanine based field effect transistors as total dose sensors for determining ionizing radiation dose Harshil N. Raval and V. Ramgopal Rao
12. OFET sensors with poly 3-hexylthiophene and pentacene as channel materials for ionizing radiation Harshil N. Raval and V. Ramgopal Rao
Part III. Corrosion:
13. Hydrolysis of hydroxamic acid complexants in the presence of non-oxidizing metal ions Scott Edwards, Fabrice Andrieux, Colin Boxall, Robin Taylor and David Woodhead
14. Fixed contamination on steel surfaces: first use of quartz crystal microgravimetry to measure oxide growth on process steels under conditions typical of nuclear reprocessing Rebecca C. Woodhouse, Richard J. Wilbraham and Colin Boxall
15. Mechanisms of oxidation of fuel cladding alloys revealed by high resolution APT, TEM and SIMS analysis Chris R. M. Grovenor, Na Ni, Daniel Hudson, Sean S. Yardley, Katie L. Moore, George D. W. Smith, Sergio Lozano-Perez and John M. Sykes
16. Free energies and mechanisms of water exchange around Uranyl from first principles molecular dynamics Raymond Atta-Fynn, Eric J. Bylaska and Wibe A. de Jong
17. Surface decontamination by photocatalysis Richard J. Wilbraham, Colin Boxall and Robin J. Taylor
18. Investigation of water adsorption on metal oxide surfaces under conditions representative of PuO2 storage containers Patrick Murphy, Colin Boxall and Robin Taylor
19. Temperature and time-dependent ion diffusion across stainless steel-zirconium film interface studied by scanning surface potential M. E. Hawley, K. J. Hollis and P. O. Dickerson
20. In situ XANES study of Co2+ Ion adsorption on Fe3O4 nanoparticles in supercritical aqueous fluids Hao Yan, Robert A. Mayanovic, Joseph Demster and Alan J. Anderson
Part IV. Structural Materials:
21. Dislocation density based crystal plasticity finite element simulation of alpha-iron Zhe Leng and David P. Field
22. Grain boundary analysis of crept alloy 617 Fan Zhang and David P. Field.

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