Features the most current research from an international body of leading experts on how radiation impacts the microstructure and mechanical properties of a wide range of metals.

• radiation damage mechanisms and modeling in reactor pressure vessel steels

• relevant mechanical properties and test techniques for pressure vessel steels

• grain boundary segregation studies

• microstructural aspects of annealing; recovery of properties by thermal annealing

• embrittlement correlations

• damage characterization using nondestructive techniques

• segregation and properties of austenitic alloys

• irradiation creep and swelling in structural and austenitic alloys

• microstructural studies and mechanical properties experiments on ferritic and ferritic-martensitic alloys

• and experiments using copper and copper alloys, vanadium alloys and other materials including aluminum, beryllium, zirconium and sapphire.