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  • Brian Wirth
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    Email: bdwirth@nuc.berkeley.edu
    Phone: 510-642-5341
    Fax: 510-643-9685

    UCB Department of Nuclear Engineering
    4165 Etcheverry Hall
    MC 1730
    Berkeley, CA 94720-1730

    Wirth Research Group

  • Date of initial appointment

    2001

  • Selected Recent Publications

    J.-H. Shim, H.-J. Lee and B.D. Wirth, "Molecular dynamics simulation of primary irradiation defect formation in Fe-10%Cr", J. Nucl. Mater 351 (2006) 56.

    L. Ventelon, B.D. Wirth and C. Domain, "Helium - self-interstitial atom interaction in ±-iron", J. Nucl. Mater 351 (2006) 119.

    S.C. Glade, B.D. Wirth, G.R. Odette and P. Asoka-Kumar, "Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy and Small Angle Neutron Scattering Characterization of Nanostructural Features in High-Nickel Model Reactor Pressure Vessel Steels", J. Nucl. Mater 351 (2006) 197.

    J.S. Robach, I.M. Robertson, H.-J. Lee, and B.D. Wirth, "Dynamic observations and atomistic simulations of dislocation - defect interactions in rapidly quenched copper and gold", Acta Mat 54 (2006) 1679.

    G.R. Odette and B.D. Wirth, "Radiation Effects in Fission and Fusion Reactors", contributed article in Handbook of Materials Modeling. Volume I: Methods and Models (Springer, Netherlands, 2005), Article 2.29.

  • Embrittlement of Reactor Pressure Vessel Steels

    The Wirth Research Group

    The objective of this work is to answer the outstanding questions regarding the irradiation hardening and embrittlement of reactor pressure vessel steels, which threaten to limit the operating lifetime of nuclear power plants worldwide.

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