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The Fuel Cycle R&D (FCRD) initiative is investigating methods of burning minor actinides in a transmutation fuel. To achieve this goal, the fast reactor core materials must withstand very high doses. Small scale materials testing methods in addition to large scale materials testing allows one to gain more insight by providing more data on the same sample while being able to probe areas of interest which are not accessible otherwise. Furthermore, the sample volumes were so small that the tests could be considered a non destructive test since the amount of material needed is so small that a macroscopic structure would not be affected. Tensile testing, micro hardness testing and micro compression testing on focused ion beam (FIB) microscope manufactured pillars were performed on remaining parts of tensile test specimens tested and irradiated in the Spallation Target Irradiation Program (STIP). It is shown that the increases of yield strength measured by tensile testing, micro compression testing and micro hardness testing all showed the same trend. In addition FIB based techniques also allowed fabrication of LEAP samples of such a small size that their residual activity was below detectable levels thus allowing them to be handled and analyzed in a manner comparable to inactive specimens.Keywords Micro compression testing . Atom probe tomography (ATP) . Local electrode atom probe (LEAP) .

We present a design of a superconducting rf photonic band gap (SRF PBG) accelerator cell with specially shaped rods in order to reduce peak surface magnetic fields and improve the effectiveness of the PBG structure for suppression of higher order modes (HOMs). The ability of PBG structures to suppress long-range wakefields is especially beneficial for superconducting electron accelerators for high power free-electron lasers (FELs), which are designed to provide high current continuous duty electron beams. Using PBG structures to reduce the prominent beam-breakup phenomena due to HOMs will allow significantly increased beam-breakup thresholds. As a result, there will be possibilities for increasing the operation frequency of SRF accelerators and for the development of novel compact high-current accelerator modules for the FELs.