Atomic origins of stored energy release in neutron-irradiated silicon carbide

Funding

These experiments and analysis were supported by the DOE Office of Fusion Energy Sciences under contract DESC0018322 with the Research Foundation for the State University of New York at Stony Brook and DE-AC05-00OR22725 with UT-Battelle LLC. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy under DOE Idaho Operations Office Contract DE-AC07-051D14517 as part of a Nuclear Science User Facilities experiment. Use of the National Synchrotron Light Source-I I, Brookhaven National Laboratory, was supported by the DOE under Contract no. DE-SC0012704. Irradiation experiment was supported by DOE Office of Nuclear Energy, Advanced Fuel Campaign under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), managed by UT Battelle, LLC. A portion of this research used resources at the HFIR, a DOE Office of Science User Facility operated by ORNL. This manuscript has been co-authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE).