NSUF 13-418: Irradiation-Assisted Diffusion of Uranium-Fe Diffusion Couples

The project will study the effect of radiation damage on interface compound formation and interactions between uranium (U) and iron (Fe), and the resulting mechanical property changes. Different from traditional approach using furnace annealing only to form diffusion couples, this project will mechanically bond U and Fe and anneal the system, with one side of the interaction zones exposed to ion irradiation simultaneously. Therefore the diffusion couples are formed under irradiation conditions. This will lead to a direct comparison between the irradiated and un-irradiated regions. The project has two purposes: one is to study the diffusion kinetics with or without ion irradiation, and the other is to study mechanical property of each interface phase with or without ion irradiation.

Informație Adițională

Cîmp	Valoare
Awarded Institution	Texas A&M University
Embargo End Date	2026-02-27
Facility Tech Lead	Alina Montrose, Kory Linton, Mukesh Bachhav
NSUF Call	FY 2013 RTE Solicitation
PI	Lin Shao
Project Member	Dr. Takuya Yamamoto, Professional Research - University of California-Santa Barbara (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6480-5225)
Project Member	Professor Lin Shao, Professor - Texas A&M University (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5703-1153)
Project Member	Bulent Sencer - Idaho National Laboratory
Project Type	RTE
Publication	Radiation effects on interface reactions of U/Fe, U/(Fe + Cr), and U/(Fe + Cr + Ni) Bulent Sencer, Lin Shao, Yongho Sohn, Young Joo Park, Rory Kennedy Journal of Nuclear Materials 456 2015-01-01 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022311514006369#!
RTE Number	418