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Nature Materials 7, 683–685 (1 September 2008) | doi:10.1038/nmat2266

Greater tolerance for nuclear materials

Robin W. Grimes , Rudy J. M. Konings & Lyndon Edwards

Faced with the prospect of building a new fleet of conventional but improved generation III (Gen III) nuclear reactors and the challenges of designing future Gen IV systems, the materials community is currently re-establishing its fascination with nuclear materials. Although worldwide research support remains patchy, a number of countries are, once again, focusing a greater proportion of their strategic funding on nuclear science and engineering projects.