scholarly journals Studies of transuranic waste storage under conditions expected in the Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP), July 1--September 30, 1978

1979 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Kosiewicz ◽  
B Barraclough ◽  
A Zerwekh ◽  
B Barnhart
Author(s):  
T. E. Mitchell ◽  
M. R. Pascucci ◽  
R. A. Youngman

1. Introduction. Studies of radiation damage in ceramics are of interest not only from a fundamental point of view but also because it is important to understand the behavior of ceramics in various practical radiation enyironments- fission and fusion reactors, nuclear waste storage media, ion-implantation devices, outer space, etc. A great deal of work has been done on the spectroscopy of point defects and small defect clusters in ceramics, but relatively little has been performed on defect agglomeration using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) in the same kind of detail that has been so successful in metals. This article will assess our present understanding of radiation damage in ceramics with illustrations using results obtained from the authors' work.


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