Seminar Marta Serrano: Structural materials for Gen IV reactors

Marta Serrano García (CIEMAT) The next evolution for commercial nuclear reactors include the design of fast nuclear reactors as a sustainable nuclear energy production system. The operating conditions for this Gen IV reactors are much more aggressive than the ones for operating light water reactors, in terms of neutron dose, temperature and coolants, that rise the need to explore new structural materials able to sustain this conditions. In this talk, a review of the potential degradation mechanisms and related design…