Published 2012 | Version v1
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Modeling of helium bubble nucleation and growth in neutron irradiated RAFM steels

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Reduced Activation Ferritic/Martensitic (RAFM) steels are first candidate structural materials in future fusion technology. In this work a physically based model using Rate Theory is developed to describe nucleation and growth of helium bubbles in neutron irradiated RAFM steels. Several modifications of the basic diffusion limited model are presented allowing a comprehensive view of clustering effects and their influence on expected helium bubble size distributions.

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Publishing Information

Publisher
KIT Scientific Publishing
Imprint Place
Karlsruhe (Germany)
ISBN
978-3-86644-901-5
Imprint Pagination
194 p.
Journal Volume
6
Series
Schriftenreihe des Instituts fuer Angewandte Materialien
ISSN
2192-9963