Experimental and Theoretical Studies on the Physical Properties of Materials for Nuclear Engineering

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of MDPI’s journal Applied Sciences is devoted to forefront research on the physical properties of materials for nuclear engineering. Renewed interest in the potential of nuclear energy to contribute to a sustainable worldwide energy mix is strengthening the need for the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and, in particular, the need for an effective exchange of information as well as collaborative research and development on advanced nuclear power technologies. The collection and dissemination of up-to-date scientific and technical data is of particular interest, in view of knowledge preservation and transmission to the next generation of scientists and engineers.

The purpose of this Special Issue is the creation of a collection of publications that represents recent advances on the data of thermophysical properties needed in nuclear power engineering, viz. data for nuclear fuels (metallic and ceramic), coolants (gases, light water, heavy water, and liquid metals), moderators, absorbers, and structural materials. Special attention will be given to the correlations and equations that are needed for the estimation of material properties, including thermodynamic properties (density, enthalpy, specific heat capacity, melting and boiling points, heat of fusion and vaporization, vapor pressure, thermal expansion, and surface tension), and transport properties (thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity, viscosity, integral thermal conductivity, electrical resistivity, and emissivity). The detailed material properties for both solid and liquid states will also be of interest.

Another purpose of this Special Issue is to advise the community, in terms of adequate data, on reducing nuclear power plant capital costs and construction periods while further improving performance, safety, and proliferation resistance, as well as on carrying out activities related to other applications of nuclear energy, such as seawater desalination, hydrogen production, and other process heat applications.

Research papers and review articles that represent the most recent advances in both experimental and theoretical studies on materials for nuclear engineering, in the form of original research, are welcome to be submitted to this Special Issue.

Dr. Leonid Burakovsky
Dr. Alexander I. Landa
Guest Editors

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