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JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS
Volume 351, Issue 1-3, Pages 88-99Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2006.02.018
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Solute Cu plays a major role in the embrittlement of reactor pressure vessel (RPV) steels under radiation. In RPV steels and dilute FeCu alloys, characterization techniques such as the tomographic atom probe (TAP), or the small angle neutron scattering (SANS) have revealed the formation of solute rich clusters (with Cu, Ni, Mn and Si) under neutron flux. It is thus very important to characterize the interactions of these solutes with radiation-induced point defects in order to understand the elementary mechanisms behind the formation of these clusters. Ab initio calculations based on the density functional theory have been made in order to build a database used to parameterise an atomic kinetic Monte Carlo model. The interactions of point defects and solute atoms in dilute FeX alloys (X = Cu, Mn, Ni or Si) have been evaluated for different configurations of small solute clusters and solute-vacancy complexes. First results obtained with the kinetic Monte Carlo model will be presented and compared to some experimental observations. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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