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Irradiation-Induced Voids and Bubbles

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The formation and growth of voids and bubbles is of intense interest for material performance in radiation environments at elevated temperature. The first observation of voids in irradiated metals was published by Cauthorne and Fulton in 1967 (Cauthorne and Fulton, in Nature 216:575, 1967). Voids can have a profound influence on material properties because solids undergo volumetric swelling when voids form and grow. It has been suggested that the US breeder reactor program experienced a setback of nearly a decade by this surprising observation, as scientists scrambled to understand this phenomenon and the consequences to reactor internals . Since that time, a great deal of effort has been expended toward understanding their formation and growth.

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Was, G.S. (2017). Irradiation-Induced Voids and Bubbles. In: Fundamentals of Radiation Materials Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3438-6_8

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