Characterization of dislocation loops and α precipitates in neutron-irradiated fecral weldments

Funding

§ Primary research funding was sponsored by the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy, Advanced Fuel Campaign of the Fuel Cycle R&D Program. Neutron irradiation of FeCrAl alloys at ORNL's HFIR user facility was sponsored by the Scientific User Facilities Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, DOE. APT was conducted at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, and at the Microscopy and Characterization Suite at the Center for Advanced Energy Studies at Idaho National Laboratory. A portion of this work was supported by DOE, Office of Nuclear Energy, under DOE Idaho Operations Office Contract DE-AC07-051D14517 as part of a Nuclear Science User Facilities experiment. Sandia National Laboratories is a multi-mission laboratory managed and operated by National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC., a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International, Inc., for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-NA0003525. §§ This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan).