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Simulation Shows How Defect-engineered Zirconia Repairs Radiation-induced Damage
April 1, 2008
Contact: Judith Graybeal, PNNL, (509) 375-4351
A new computer simulation has revealed a self-healing behavior in a common ceramic that may lead to development of radiation-resistant materials for nuclear power plants and waste storage.
DOE's Office of Basic Energy Sciences funded the research, which was performed on massively parallel supercomputers in the William R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) at PNNL, and the National Energy Research Scientific Computer Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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