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The Education, Training & Workforce Development Division provides communication among the academic, industrial, and governmental communities through the exchange of views and information on matters related to education, training and workforce development in nuclear and radiological science, engineering, and technology. Industry leaders, education and training professionals, and interested students work together through Society-sponsored meetings and publications, to enrich their professional development, to educate the general public, and to advance nuclear and radiological science and engineering.
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Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
August 4–7, 2024
Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
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F. A. Nichols
Nuclear Technology | Volume 40 | Number 1 | August 1978 | Pages 98-105
Technical Paper | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT78-A26703
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The essentials of radiation damage in metals and alloys are reviewed with special emphasis on the spatial distribution of the vacancies and interstitials produced. These concepts are then related to our current understanding of the phenomena of radiation hardening, radiation embrittlement, radiation creep, radiation swelling, and radiation growth. It is concluded that radiation hardening and radiation embrittlement in thermal reactors and at lower temperatures in fast reactors are best gauged by a measure of the number of primary knock-on atoms having an energy greater than some threshold energy. The other phenomena mentioned are best gauged as rate processes proportional to the rate of point defect production. No one gauge of radiation damage is best for all phenomena.