Table of Contents

1 Introduction
2 Reactor designs
3 Material requirements
4 Radiation damage
5 Radioactive waste implications of damage
6 Fuels
7 Cladding
8 Structural materials
9 Future designs
10 Fusion
11 When it went wrong and lessons learnt

About the Author

Karl Whittle is Chair in Nuclear Engineering at Centre for Materials and Structure at University of Liverpool. He joined after a move from the department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Sheffield. Previous to that Professor Whittle was research leader at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) in nuclear materials science. In particular, he was focused on the effects of radiation damage, how it can be ameliorated and materials designed for the next-generation nuclear reactor technologies, both fission- and fusion-based. Before that he worked in postdoctoral research positions at the universities of Sheffield, Cambridge and Bristol.