Serge Bouffard is a retired Research Director for the CEA and has devoted his career to the study of the interaction of particles with materials and the mechanisms of defect creation. He is the man behind EMIR: the French national network of accelerators for the study of materials under irradiation. Nathalie Moncoffre is a Research Director at the CNRS, specializing in the aging of nuclear materials. In particular, she has studied the behavior of fuel, metallic alloys, absorbers and graphite under irradiation. She is the manager at the EMIR&A: the French national network of accelerators for irradiation and analysis of molecules and materials.

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Serge BOUFFARD and Nathalie MONCOFFRE

Chapter 1 Irradiation Defects 1
Serge BOUFFARD and David SIMÉONE

Chapter 2 Metal Alloys 47
Philippe PAREIGE and Christophe DOMAIN

Chapter 3 Ceramics within PWRs 87
Christine DELAFOY, Frederico GARRIDO and Yves PIPON

Chapter 4 Nuclear Graphite 125
Nicolas BÉRERD and Laurent PETIT

Chapter 5 Nuclear Glasses 151
Magaly TRIBET

Chapter 6 Radiolysis of Porous Materials and Radiolysis at Interfaces 181
Sophie LE CAËR and Jean-Philippe RENAULT

Chapter 7 Concrete and Cement Materials under Irradiation 201
Pascal BOUNIOL

Chapter 8 Organic Materials 215
Emmanuel BALANZAT and Muriel FERRY

Chapter 9 Irradiation Tools 251
Serge BOUFFARD and Nathalie MONCOFFRE

Chapter 10 Characterization of Irradiation Damage 269
Aurélie GENTILS, Stéphanie JUBLOT-LECLERC and Patrick SIMON

References 289

List of Authors 293

Index 295