Radiation damage and point defects

Abstract

Sir Alan Cottrell has made huge seminal contributions to our basic understanding of radiation damage processes in both fissile and non-fissile materials. Much of this ground-breaking work was accomplished in the mid-1950s when Cottrell was working at Birmingham University and later at Harwell Laboratory. It is interesting to relate the earlier progress in the 1950s to our present understanding of the phenomenon.

Keywords:

• radiation damage
• metallurgy
• point defects

Notes

R. Bullough is now retired and can be contacted at 4 Long Meadow, Manor Road, Goring, Reading RG8 9EG.

1. The possibility that this might happen was first suggested by Foreman, Greenwood and Rimmer [37] in a discussion of gas bubble nucleation and growth fissile materials in 1959.