Simulated self-irradiation effects of Gd2Ce2O7 nuclear waste form

Grazing-incidence synchrotron radiation diffraction studies on irradiated Ce-doped and pristine Y-stabilized ZrO2 at the Rossendorf beamline

“…By bombarding materials with energetic (kiloelectronvolts to megaelectronvolts range) ions of He (to simulate alpha particles) or ions of heavy elements (typically to simulate the recoil of daughter products), such as gold or noble gases, defects and microstructural damage can be created in corresponding crystal structures. The possibility to change the fluence of generated ion beams allows for controlled and accelerated experiments that can reveal mechanisms and kinetics of radiation damage in different materials (Sickafus et al, 1999;Shu et al, 2020;Yan et al, 2015;Lenz et al, 2019;Leys et al, 2022).…”