@article{e925bf23b9db450db05c44c3c0d17f47,
title = "MeV per nucleon ion irradiation of nuclear materials with high energy synchrotron X-ray characterization",
abstract = "The combination of MeV/Nucleon ion irradiation (e.g. 133 MeV Xe) and high energy synchrotron x-ray characterization (e.g. at the Argonne Advanced Photon Source, APS) provides a powerful characterization method to understand radiation effects and to rapidly screen materials for the nuclear reactor environment. Ions in this energy range penetrate ∼10 μm into materials. Over this range, the physical interactions vary (electronic stopping, nuclear stopping and added interstitials). Spatially specific x-ray (and TEM and nanoindentation) analysis allow individual quantification of these various effects. Hard x-rays provide the penetration depth needed to analyze even nuclear fuels. Here, this combination of synchrotron x-ray and MeV/Nucleon ion irradiation is demonstrated on U-Mo fuels. A preliminary look at HT-9 steels is also presented. We suggest that a hard x-ray facility with in situ MeV/nucleon irradiation capability would substantially accelerate the rate of discovery for extreme materials.",
keywords = "Characterization, Radiation damage, UMo, energetic ion, nuclear fuels, x-ray",
author = "Pellin, {M. J.} and Yacout, {Abdellatif M.} and Kun Mo and Jonathan Almer and S. Bhattacharya and Walid Mohamed and Seidman, {David N} and Bei Ye and D. Yun and Ruqing Xu and Shaofei Zhu",
note = "Funding Information: This work is supported in part by the US Department of Energy's Office of Basic Energy Sciences , under contract no. DE-AC02-06CH11357 . MJP would like to acknowledge BES Materials Sciences and Engineering. The authors would like to thank Javier Figueroa from ANL for providing the original materials for this work. The authors are also grateful to Thomas Wiencek and Ed O'Hare for their help on preparing the U-Mo samples. The authors would also like to acknowledge the help Matthew Hendricks on the ATLAS irradiations. This research used resources of ANL{\textquoteright}s ATLAS facility, which is a DOE Office of Science User Facility. The electron microscopy was accomplished at Argonne National Laboratory at the IVEM-Tandem Facility, a U.S. Department of Energy Facility funded by the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy , operated under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357 by UChicago Argonne, LLC. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Global Threat Reduction (NA-21), National Nuclear Security Administration , under Contract No. DE-AC-02-06CH11357 between UChicago Argonne, LLC and the Department of Energy and Argonne strategic Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program . This work made use of the EPIC facility (NUANCE Center-Northwestern University), which has received support from the MRSEC program ( NSF DMR-1121262 ) at the Materials Research Center; the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center ( NSF EEC-0647560 ) at the International Institute for Nanotechnology; and the State of Illinois , through the International Institute for Nanotechnology. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016, Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.",
year = "2016",
month = apr,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1016/j.jnucmat.2016.01.004",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "471",
pages = "266--271",
journal = "Journal of Nuclear Materials",
issn = "0022-3115",
publisher = "Elsevier",
}