Damage Accumulation in Nuclear Ceramics

Abstract

tools to simulate the interactions involved during the slowing-down of energetic particles. This article presents a review of the radiation eects occurring in nuclear ceramics, with an emphasis on new results concerning the damage build-up. Ions with energies in the keV‐GeV range are considered for this study in order to explore both regimes of nuclear collisions (at low energy) and electronic excitations (at high energy). The recovery, by electronic excitation, of the damage created by ballistic collisions (swift heavy ion beam induced epitaxial recrystallization process) is also reported.