“…At A&, = 0.3% and 0-40/,, the behaviour is quite different: the unirradiated specimen has a plastic strain component of 015% both at the first cycle and after saturation and the irradiated specimen has no plastic component at all at this low strain range. This could explain the longer fatigue lives for irradiated material at lower strain ranges, as observed by Kangilaski [3,4]. TEM inspection of the dislocation substructure in tested specimens gives information about the microstructural mechanisms involved.…”