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A Decade of Nuclear Materials Modeling: Status and Challenges

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The performance of materials used in nuclear technologies is controlled by mechanisms that have their origin at the atomic level. Materials modeling is needed in conjunction with theory and experimental observations to develop fundamental understanding of energetic processes that span disparate scales in space and time. Modeling of nuclear materials has been in use continuously since the early developments in the 1950s. It is by no means a mature field, with constant advances still being made on many levels, including theory, simulation, and algorithms. This can be ultimately linked to the fact that we do not currently have a complete theory of irradiation damage in materials. Multiscale materials modeling has stepped up to fill that gap and continues to address the research needs of the nuclear materials community. This section provides the reader with a rigorous and practical description of the different elements of multiscale modeling that have had and are having the broadest impact on the field.

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Acknowledgments

J. Marian is supported by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Fusion Energy Sciences. R. Devanathan is supported by DOE’s Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation (NEAMS) program at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory – a multiprogram laboratory operated for DOE by Battelle.

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  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Jaime Marian

  2. Energy and Environment Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA

    Ram Devanathan

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  1. Institute of Physics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Wanda Andreoni

  2. Department of Nuclear Science & Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Sidney Yip

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  1. Energy and Environment Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA

    Ram Devanathan

  2. Materials Science and Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Jaime Marian

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Marian, J., Devanathan, R. (2019). A Decade of Nuclear Materials Modeling: Status and Challenges. In: Andreoni, W., Yip, S. (eds) Handbook of Materials Modeling. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50257-1_152-1

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