| Theme 3: Actinide Materials Under Extreme Environments |
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Lead - Rod Ewing
Theme 3 will look at actindie materials under extreme environments, ie. pressure, temperature, chemical environments, and radiation effects. They are in search of a fundamental understanding of defect behavior at the atomic scale and testing the performance of materials under exterme environments.
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Behavior of Nanostructured materials under extreme environments (temperature+pressure+irradiation field)
The effects of extreme environments will be examined individually along with coupled effects in order to understand the behavior of actinide bearing materials. Comprehensive models will also be developed that predict the evolution and performance of actindie materials under extreme environments. The radiation performance and thermodynamic stability of apatite will also be studied.
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Phase Stablility and Order-Disorder Transitions in AnO2 fluroite structures: Radiation Dose and Temperature
This project will focus on the effects of temperature and radiation on actinide-oxide-containing fluorite and fluorite derivative structures.
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Theme Participants
Various groups will collaborate to Dr. Ewing on these projects.
Jie Lian and Rod Ewing will be characterizing all materials under the extreme environments.
Bill Weber, Ed Maginn, and Udo Becker will collaborate on modeling these materials. |
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