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

[Marlin]

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

[Chimera]

I thought interstitial defects were a known quantity decades ago.

[hamsamich]

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

[Marlin]

....nerd stuff

Well it was a computer model.