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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials

Imperial College London : B - Metallurgy and Materials

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Output 27 of 140 in the submission

Article title

Defects and transport processes in beryllium

Type

D - Journal article

DOI

10.1016/j.actamat.2011.07.064

Title of journal

Acta Materialia

Article number

Volume number

Issue number

First page of article

7095

ISSN of journal

1359-6454

Year of publication

2011

URL

Number of additional authors

Additional information

Neutron bombardment of beryllium will be used to acquire the neutron population necessary for tritium breeding in a fusion reactor. Tritium retention during normal operation and its release in the event of over-heating, are safety concerns. The formation and migration activation energies of intrinsic and dopant defects in beryllium, first consistently predicted here, are now used in constituent models of beryllium in fusion reactor designs at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, who have consequently fully sponsored a PhD student at Imperial College to start Oct 2013. The values have also implemented new work at AWE Aldermaston.

Interdisciplinary

Cross-referral requested

Research group

None

Proposed double-weighted

Double-weighted statement

Reserve for a double-weighted output

Non-English

English abstract