Manufacture, Properties and Applications of Advanced Nuclear Alloys
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 1202
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nuclear fuel; fuel cladding; nuclear wasteform; materials characterization
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Dear Colleagues,
Rapid growth in nuclear energy consumption as well as the evolution of Gen-IV nuclear reactor technologies are noticeable trends and facilitate the development of new materials and technologies. Advances in Nuclear-Application Metal Alloys, which include the development and characterization of the materials (potentially) used in advanced nuclear reactors, are the scope for this Special Issue. From the beginning, the development of metallic fuel or structural materials for nuclear reactors has been of great significance for the safety and reliability of nuclear power plants. A reactor is designed to be used for several dozens of years under an extreme core environment. Designing alloys to withstand extreme environments, either high temperatures or strong irradiation, is a fundamental challenge for materials scientists. For the abovementioned reasons, the fabrication, characterization, and theoretical understanding of advanced nuclear fuels and structural materials regarding their thermo-mechanical property, the synergistic effect of temperature, corrosion, irradiation, and in-pile performance are critical to the future nuclear application of advanced superalloys.
In this Special Issue, we welcome articles that focus on the fabrication, characterization, and theoretical study of metallic fuel, advanced nuclear fuel cladding, and structural alloys in the field of advanced nuclear systems. The innovative study of additive manufacturing of superalloys for nuclear applications and multiscale research methods that bridge the microstructure– property relationship are of special interest.
Dr. Kun Yang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nuclear fuel
- structural alloys
- structural characterization
- fabrication process
- in-pile performance
- extreme environment
- irradiation
- corrosion
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