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)
I thought interstitial defects were a known quantity decades ago.
something about loops now not lines....but I'm not sure why it matters so much....nerd stuff
Quote from: hamsamich on Nov 20, 2018, 01:04
....nerd stuff
Well it was a computer model. :P