MIT: To Engineers' Surprise, Radiation Can Slow Corrosion of Some Materials
July 10, 2020
July 10, 2020
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, July 10 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news:
Radiation nearly always degrades the materials exposed to it, hastening their deterioration and requiring replacement of key components in high-radiation environments such as nuclear reactors. But for certain alloys that could be used in fission or fusion reactors, the opposite turns out to be true: Researchers at MIT and in California have now found that instead of hastening th . . .
Radiation nearly always degrades the materials exposed to it, hastening their deterioration and requiring replacement of key components in high-radiation environments such as nuclear reactors. But for certain alloys that could be used in fission or fusion reactors, the opposite turns out to be true: Researchers at MIT and in California have now found that instead of hastening th . . .