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Title: A new lead on a 50-year-old radiation damage mystery
Post by: Marlin on Nov 19, 2018, 12:40

A new lead on a 50-year-old radiation damage mystery

For half a century, researchers have seen loops of displaced atoms appearing inside nuclear reactor steel after exposure to radiation, but no one could work out how.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181116164511.htm (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181116164511.htm)

Title: Re: A new lead on a 50-year-old radiation damage mystery
Post by: Chimera on Nov 20, 2018, 11:48

I thought interstitial defects were a known quantity decades ago.

Title: Re: A new lead on a 50-year-old radiation damage mystery
Post by: hamsamich on Nov 20, 2018, 01:04

something about loops now not lines....but I'm not sure why it matters so much....nerd stuff

Title: Re: A new lead on a 50-year-old radiation damage mystery
Post by: Marlin on Nov 20, 2018, 01:08

Quote from: hamsamich on Nov 20, 2018, 01:04

....nerd stuff

Well it was a computer model.  :P