Safe long term operation of light water reactors based on improved understanding of radiation effects in nuclear structural materials

Project Information

SOTERIA

Grant agreement ID: 661913

DOI 10.3030/661913

Project closed

EC signature date 15 May 2015

Start date 1 September 2015

End date 31 August 2019

Funded under

• Euratom

Total cost € 13 888 769,25

EU contribution € 4 971 297,00

Coordinated by

COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
France

Deliverables

Other (3)

Training school

The training material will contain the presentations and papers (if applicable) delivered during the training school, as well as any other public document related to the topics addressed which might be of interest for the students. Each participant will receive a copy of the training material either in paper or in electronic form.

Project public website

The SOTERIA public website will provide information about the project, publications, news and events.

Project flyer and PPT

Flyer presenting the SOTERIA objectives, main activities, expected results and partners.

Documents, reports (1)

Report on training school evaluation

A report describing the execution of the training course and evaluating the results. A survey based on questionnaires might be conducted to assess the opinion of the students regarding the usefulness of the training school.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (34)

Void growth and coalescence in irradiated copper under deformation

Author(s): P.O. Barrioz, J. Hure, B. Tanguy
Published in: Journal of Nuclear Materials, Issue 502, 2018, Page(s) 123-131, ISSN 0022-3115
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2018.01.064

Cluster dynamics modeling and experimental investigation of the effect of injected interstitials

Author(s): B. Michaut, T. Jourdan, J. Malaplate, A. Renault-Laborne, F. Sefta, B. Décamps
Published in: Journal of Nuclear Materials, Issue 496, 2017, Page(s) 166-176, ISSN 0022-3115
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2017.09.018

Radiation-induced bcc-fcc phase transformation in a Fe 3%Ni alloy

Author(s): L.T. Belkacemi, E. Meslin, B. Décamps, B. Radiguet, J. Henry
Published in: Acta Materialia, Issue 161, 2018, Page(s) 61-72, ISSN 1359-6454
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2018.08.031

Effect of saddle point anisotropy of point defects on their absorption by dislocations and cavities

Author(s): D. Carpentier, T. Jourdan, Y. Le Bouar, M.-C. Marinica
Published in: Acta Materialia, Issue 136, 2017, Page(s) 323-334, ISSN 1359-6454
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2017.07.013

A DFT study of the stability of SIAs and small SIA clusters in the vicinity of solute atoms in Fe

Author(s): C.S. Becquart, R. Ngayam Happy, P. Olsson, C. Domain
Published in: Journal of Nuclear Materials, Issue 500, 2018, Page(s) 92-109, ISSN 0022-3115
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2017.12.022

On the use of SEM correlative tools for in situ mechanical tests

Author(s): Qiwei SHI, Stéphane Roux, Félix Latourte, François Hild, Dominique Loisnard, Nicolas Brynaert
Published in: Ultramicroscopy, Issue 184, 2018, Page(s) 71-87, ISSN 0304-3991
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2017.08.005

Backtracking Depth-Resolved Microstructures for Crystal Plasticity Identification—Part 1: Backtracking Microstructures

Author(s): Qiwei Shi, Félix Latourte, François Hild, Stéphane Roux
Published in: JOM, Issue 69/12, 2017, Page(s) 2810-2818, ISSN 1047-4838
Publisher: J O M Institute
DOI: 10.1007/s11837-017-2585-2

Backtracking Depth-Resolved Microstructures for Crystal Plasticity Identification—Part 2: Identification

Author(s): Qiwei Shi, Félix Latourte, François Hild, Stéphane Roux
Published in: JOM, Issue 69/12, 2017, Page(s) 2803-2809, ISSN 1047-4838
Publisher: J O M Institute
DOI: 10.1007/s11837-017-2586-1

Measuring topographies from conventional SEM acquisitions

Author(s): Qiwei Shi, Stéphane Roux, Félix Latourte, François Hild, Dominique Loisnard, Nicolas Brynaert
Published in: Ultramicroscopy, Issue 191, 2018, Page(s) 18-33, ISSN 0304-3991
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2018.04.006

Solute effects on edge dislocation pinning in complex alpha-Fe alloys

Author(s): M.I. Pascuet, E. Martínez, G. Monnet, L. Malerba
Published in: Journal of Nuclear Materials, Issue 494, 2017, Page(s) 311-321, ISSN 0022-3115
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2017.07.049

Nanoindentation of ion-irradiated reactor pressure vessel steels – model-based interpretation and comparison with neutron irradiation

Author(s): F. Röder, C. Heintze, S. Pecko, S. Akhmadaliev, F. Bergner, A. Ulbricht, E. Altstadt
Published in: Philosophical Magazine, Issue 98/11, 2018, Page(s) 911-933, ISSN 1478-6435
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/14786435.2018.1425007

Solute – 〈111〉 interstitial loop interaction in α-Fe: A DFT study

Author(s): C. Domain, C.S. Becquart
Published in: Journal of Nuclear Materials, Issue 499, 2018, Page(s) 582-594, ISSN 0022-3115
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2017.10.070

Improved atomistic Monte Carlo models based on ab-initio -trained neural networks: Application to FeCu and FeCr alloys

Author(s): N. Castin, L. Messina, C. Domain, R. C. Pasianot, P. Olsson
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 95/21, 2017, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.95.214117

Advanced atomistic models for radiation damage in Fe-based alloys: Contributions and future perspectives from artificial neural networks

Author(s): N. Castin, M.I. Pascuet, L. Messina, C. Domain, P. Olsson, R.C. Pasianot, L. Malerba
Published in: Computational Materials Science, Issue 148, 2018, Page(s) 116-130, ISSN 0927-0256
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2018.02.025

Helium effects on IASCC susceptibility in as-implanted solution annealed, cold-worked and post-implantation annealed 316L steel

Author(s): I. Villacampa, J. C. Chen, P. Spätig, H. P. Seifert, F. Duval
Published in: Corrosion Engineering, Science and Technology, Issue 52/8, 2017, Page(s) 567-577, ISSN 1478-422X
Publisher: Maney Publishing
DOI: 10.1080/1478422X.2017.1323709

Helium bubble evolution and hardening in 316L by post-implantation annealing

Author(s): I. Villacampa, J.C. Chen, P. Spätig, H.P. Seifert, F. Duval
Published in: Journal of Nuclear Materials, Issue 500, 2018, Page(s) 389-402, ISSN 0022-3115
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2018.01.017

Edge dislocations as sinks for sub-nanometric radiation induced defects in α-iron

Author(s): N. Anento, L. Malerba, A. Serra
Published in: Journal of Nuclear Materials, Issue 498, 2018, Page(s) 341-347, ISSN 0022-3115
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2017.10.053

Effect of nickel on point defects diffusion in Fe – Ni alloys

Author(s): N. Anento, A. Serra, Y. Osetsky
Published in: Acta Materialia, Issue 132, 2017, Page(s) 367-373, ISSN 1359-6454
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2017.05.010

Nanostructure evolution of neutron-irradiated reactor pressure vessel steels: Revised Object kinetic Monte Carlo model

Author(s): M. Chiapetto, L. Messina, C.S. Becquart, P. Olsson, L. Malerba
Published in: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, Issue 393, 2017, Page(s) 105-109, ISSN 0168-583X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2016.09.025

Systematic electronic-structure investigation of substitutional impurity diffusion and flux coupling in bcc iron

Author(s): Luca Messina, Maylise Nastar, Nils Sandberg, Pär Olsson
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 93/18, 2016, Page(s) 184302, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.93.184302

An object kinetic Monte Carlo model for the microstructure evolution of neutron-irradiated reactor pressure vessel steels

Author(s): Luca Messina, Monica Chiapetto, Pär Olsson, Charlotte S. Becquart, Lorenzo Malerba
Published in: physica status solidi (a), Issue 213/11, 2016, Page(s) 2974-2980, ISSN 1862-6300
Publisher: Wiley - V C H Verlag GmbbH & Co.
DOI: 10.1002/pssa.201600038

Introducing ab initio based neural networks for transition-rate prediction in kinetic Monte Carlo simulations

Author(s): Luca Messina, Nicolas Castin, Christophe Domain, Pär Olsson
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 95/6, 2017, Page(s) 64112-1 / 64112-16, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.95.064112

Quaternion correlation for tracking crystal motions

Author(s): Qiwei Shi, Félix Latourte, François Hild, Stéphane Roux
Published in: Measurement Science and Technology, Issue 27/9, 2016, Page(s) 095006, ISSN 0957-0233
Publisher: Institute of Physics and the Physical Society
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/27/9/095006

A comparison of collective dislocation motion from single slip quantitative topographic analysis during in-situ AFM room temperature tensile tests on Cu and Feα crystals

Author(s): C. Kahloun, G. Monnet, S. Queyreau, L.T. Le, P. Franciosi
Published in: International Journal of Plasticity, Issue 84, 2016, Page(s) 277-298, ISSN 0749-6419
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijplas.2016.06.002

Influence of phonon and electron excitations on the free energy of defect clusters in solids: A first-principles study

Author(s): M. Posselt, D. Murali, M. Schiwarth
Published in: Computational Materials Science, Issue 127, 2017, Page(s) 284-294, ISSN 0927-0256
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2016.10.039

Ab initio threshold displacement energies in iron

Author(s): P. Olsson, C. S. Becquart, C. Domain
Published in: Materials Research Letters, Issue 4/4, 2016, Page(s) 219-225, ISSN 2166-3831
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/21663831.2016.1181680

Solute precipitation on a screw dislocation and its effects on dislocation mobility in bcc Fe

Author(s): M.I. Pascuet, G. Monnet, G. Bonny, E. Martínez, J.J.H. Lim, M.G. Burke, L. Malerba
Published in: Journal of Nuclear Materials, Issue 519, 2019, Page(s) 265-273, ISSN 0022-3115
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2019.04.007

Prediction of irradiation hardening in austenitic stainless steels: Analytical and crystal plasticity studies

Author(s): Ghiath Monnet, Chu Mai
Published in: Journal of Nuclear Materials, Issue 518, 2019, Page(s) 316-325, ISSN 0022-3115
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2019.03.001

Multiscale modeling of crystal plasticity in Reactor Pressure Vessel steels: Prediction of irradiation hardening

Author(s): Ghiath Monnet, Ludovic Vincent, Lionel Gélébart
Published in: Journal of Nuclear Materials, Issue 514, 2019, Page(s) 128-138, ISSN 0022-3115
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2018.11.028

Effects of the grain size and shape on the flow stress: A dislocation dynamics study

Author(s): Maoyuan Jiang, Benoit Devincre, Ghiath Monnet
Published in: International Journal of Plasticity, Issue 113, 2019, Page(s) 111-124, ISSN 0749-6419
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijplas.2018.09.008

A model of defect cluster creation in fragmented cascades in metals based on morphological analysis

Author(s): A De Backer, C Domain, C S Becquart, L Luneville, D Simeone, A E Sand, K Nordlund
Published in: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Issue 30/40, 2018, Page(s) 405701, ISSN 0953-8984
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/aadb4e

The impact of alloying elements on the precipitation stability and kinetics in iron based alloys: An atomistic study

Author(s): G. Bonny, C. Domain, N. Castin, P. Olsson, L. Malerba
Published in: Computational Materials Science, Issue 161, 2019, Page(s) 309-320, ISSN 0927-0256
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2019.02.007

Multiscale modeling of irradiation hardening: Application to important nuclear materials

Author(s): Ghiath Monnet
Published in: Journal of Nuclear Materials, Issue 508, 2018, Page(s) 609-627, ISSN 0022-3115
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2018.06.020

Interaction between interstitial carbon atoms and a ½ 〈1 1 1〉 self-interstitial atoms loop in an iron matrix: a combined DFT, off lattice KMC and MD study

Author(s): R Candela, N Mousseau, R G A Veiga, C Domain, C S Becquart
Published in: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Issue 30/33, 2018, Page(s) 335901, ISSN 0953-8984
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/aad25d

Conference proceedings (10)

Fracture Toughness Predictive Models Within the SOTERIA EU Project

Author(s): P. M. James, M. Berveiller
Published in: Volume 6A: Materials and Fabrication, 2018, Page(s) V06AT06A078, ISBN 978-0-7918-5167-8
Publisher: ASME
DOI: 10.1115/PVP2018-85074

Polycrystalline Simulations of an Irradiated Stainless Steel: A Comparison between Finite Element and Fast Fourier Transforms Based Simulations

Author(s): El Shawish Samir, Cizelj Leon, Vincent Pierre-Guy, Moulinec Hervé
Published in: International Conference Nuclear Energy for New Europe, 2017
Publisher: Nuclear Society of Slovenia

Influence of Hydrogen on Structure of Oxide Film on austenitic alloys formed in Primary Water of Pressurized Water Reactors

Author(s): S. Merino, G. De Diego, C. Maffiotte
Published in: FONTEVRAUD 9 17 – 20 September 2018 Avignon, France, 2018
Publisher: FONTEVRAUD9

Des expériences modèles de croissance et de coalescence de cavités à la modélisation de la rupture ductile dans les matériaux irradiés

Author(s): J. Hure, P.O. Barrioz, B. Tanguy
Published in: Rencontre Scientifique MINOS (22 Sept. 2016, Cardache, France), 2016
Publisher: -

Dislocation Dynamics Simulation of Irradiated BCC-Iron Used in RPV

Author(s): Malik Shukeir, Laurent Dupuy, Benoit Devincre
Published in: Colloque Plasticité (10-12 April 2017, Rennes, France), 2017
Publisher: INSA

Dislocation spreading in post-irradiated ferritic grains: a statistical description based on 3D dislocation dynamics simulations

Author(s): Y. Li, C. Robertson
Published in: Colloque Plasticité (10-12 April 2017, Rennes, France), 2017
Publisher: INSA

Homogenized Helium Effects on IASCC Susceptibility

Author(s): I. Villacampa, J. C. Chen, P. Spätig, H. P. Seifert and F. Duval
Published in: EUROCORR (11-15 Sep. 2016, Montpellier-France), 2016
Publisher: -

Void growth and coalescence in irradiated materials

Author(s): J. Hure, P.O. Barrioz, B. Tanguy
Published in: 24th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics conference (21-26 August 2016), 2016
Publisher: -

Phase transformation and crack propagation in an AISI 304 stainless steel during in situ biaxial loading in SEM and with X-ray diffraction

Author(s): C. Caër, R.Pesci
Published in: ICEM (3-7 July, 2016, Rhodes), 2016
Publisher: -

Crystal deformation and rotation measurements in bainitic-ferritic steel

Author(s): Qiwei SHI, Félix LATOURTE, François HILD, Stéphane ROUX
Published in: Colloque Mécamat (January 2017, Aussois, France), 2017
Publisher: Mécamat

Book chapters (6)

Validation of Surveillance Concepts and Trend Curves by the Investigation of Decommissioned Reactor Pressure Vessels

Author(s): Hans-Werner Viehrig, Eberhard Altstadt, Mario Houska, Matti Valo
Published in: 2018, Page(s) 457-484
Publisher: ASTM International
DOI: 10.1520/STP160320160127

Atomistic Modeling of Radiation Damage in Metallic Alloys

Author(s): Charlotte S. Becquart, Andrée De Backer, Christophe Domain
Published in: 2018, Page(s) 1-30
Publisher: Springer Singapore
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-6855-3_21-1

Multiscale Modeling of Radiation Hardening

Author(s): Ghiath Monnet, Ludovic Vincent
Published in: Handbook of Mechanics of Materials, 2019, Page(s) 167-197, ISBN 978-981-10-6883-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-6884-3_8

Effect of Strain Rate and High Temperature Water on Deformation Structure of VVER Neutron Irradiated Core Internals Steel

Author(s): Anna Hojna, Jan Duchon, Patricie Halodova, Hygreeva Kiran Namburi
Published in: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Environmental Degradation of Materials in Nuclear Power Systems – Water Reactors, Issue August 13-17, 2017, 2019, Page(s) 549-563, ISBN 978-3-030-04638-5
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-04639-2_35

Object Kinetic Monte Carlo (OKMC): A Coarse-Grained Approach to Radiation Damage

Author(s): Christophe Domain, Charlotte S. Becquart
Published in: Handbook of Materials Modeling - Methods: Theory and Modeling, 2019, Page(s) 1-26, ISBN 978-3-319-42913-7
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-42913-7_101-1

Atomistic Kinetic Monte Carlo and Solute Effects

Author(s): Charlotte S. Becquart, Normand Mousseau, Christophe Domain
Published in: Handbook of Materials Modeling - Applications: Current and Emerging Materials, 2019, Page(s) 1-20, ISBN 978-3-319-50257-1
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-50257-1_136-1

Thesis and dissertations (4)

Helium effects on irradiation assisted stress corrosion cracking susceptibility of 316L austenitic stainless steel

Author(s): Ignasi VILLACAMPA ROSES
Published in: EPFL PhD thesis, 2018, Page(s) 1- 193
Publisher: Lausanne, EPFL

Multiscale modeling of atomic transport phenomena in ferritic steels

Author(s): L. Messina
Published in: TRITA-FYS 2015-80, 2015, ISBN 978-91-7595-764-7
Publisher: KTH

Investigation of grain size and shape effects on crystal plasticity by dislocation dynamics simulations

Author(s): Maoyuan Jiang
Published in: PhD Dissertation, 2019
Publisher: University Paris Saclay

Helium effects on irradiation assisted stress corrosion cracking susceptibility of 316L austenitic stainless steel

Author(s): Ignasi VILLACAMPA ROSES
Published in: 2018
Publisher: EPFL PhD thesis