The IAEA’s new publication The Metallurgy of Zirconium is your go-to supply. Over three volumes, the e-book — distinctive in its scope and breadth — supplies readers in business and academia with a complete assessment of the event and understanding of zirconium throughout the context of its use in nuclear reactors. It presents enter from main specialists within the related fields and encompasses the complete spectrum of zirconium as a steel, its properties and its use.

The publication’s protection contains alloy improvement within the nuclear business and pointers on industrial alloys and alloys underneath improvement; extraction and consolidation of zirconium, from ore to ingot to element; deformation and texture of varied alloys with evaluation of the results of irradiation injury on bodily and mechanical behaviour in addition to deformation and creep throughout irradiation and injury because of oxidation and corrosion; and ductility and fractures of alloys.

“The way forward for the nuclear business worldwide relies upon totally on the power of the nuclear group to additional enhance our understanding of the supplies used within the business,” mentioned Anzhelika Khaperskaia, Technical Lead on the IAEA Division of Nuclear Gas Cycle and Waste Expertise and present Scientific Secretary answerable for the publication of the e-book. 

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