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Choice of construction materials for high flux regions of reactors complicated by difficult and costly experimentation required to determine radiation effects and inter-relationship of structural properties in irradiated metals.
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The laboratory is operated by the Union Carbide Nuclear Co. for the AEC. The paper was presented at the EJC Nuclear Congress in Cleveland in December 1955
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Wilson, J.C., Billington, D. Effect of Nuclear Radiation On Structural Materials. JOM 8, 665–672 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03377751
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