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The first step in understanding the effects of irradiation on materials is to understand, on the atomic level, the nature of radiation damage. In the previous chapters, we developed a quantitative description of the process of displacing an atom from its lattice site by the transfer of kinetic energy from a high-energy particle. The recoiling lattice atom travels through the crystal, colliding with its neighbors and displacing these also from their sites.
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Was, G.S. (2017). Point Defect Formation and Diffusion. In: Fundamentals of Radiation Materials Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3438-6_4
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