The Journal of Nuclear Materials publishes high quality papers in materials research for nuclear applications, primarily fission reactors, fusion reactors, and similar environments including radiation areas of charged particle accelerators. Both original research and critical review papers covering experimental, theoretical, and computational aspects of either fundamental or applied nature are welcome.
The breadth of the field is such that a wide range of processes and properties in the field of materials science and engineering is of interest to the readership, spanning atom-scale processes, microstructures, thermodynamics, mechanical properties, physical properties, and corrosion, for example.
The following list describes topics within the scope of the Journal.
- Fission reactor materials, including fuels, cladding, core structures, pressure vessels, coolant interactions with materials, moderator and control components; fission product behavior.
- Materials aspects of the entire fuel cycle.
- Materials aspects of the actinides and their compounds.
- Performance of nuclear waste materials; immobilization of wastes.
- Fusion reactor materials, including first walls, blankets, insulators and magnets.
- Neutron and charged particle radiation effects in materials, including defects, transmutations, microstructures, phase changes and macroscopic properties.
- Interaction of plasmas, ion beams, electron beams and electromagnetic radiation with materials.
Please note: a manuscript must focus on materials science and engineering related to nuclear applications. Thus, all topics within nuclear science and engineering or materials science and engineering do not necessarily fall within the scope. Topics outside the scope of the Journal will not be considered, and potential alternative journals are indicated in brackets in the list below. Typical examples of topics which are out of scope for the Journal include:
(1) Topics in nuclear engineering and other areas not addressing materials, such as:
(2) Materials topics not addressing nuclear applications, such as general studies in:
Editorial board
Editor-in-Chief
- G. S. Was
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Senior Editors
- D.A. Petti
Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, Idaho, USA - S. Ukai
Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan - S.J. Zinkle
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Associate Editors
- J. P. Crocombette
CEA Saclay, France - N. Dacheux
Université Montpellier, Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France - Y Dai
Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Villigen-PSI, Switzerland - K. Fukuya
Institute of Nuclear Safety System, Fukui, Japan - Q. Huang
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Hefei, Anhui, China - L. Malerba
Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK-CEN), Mol, Belgium - M. Preuss
University of Manchester, Manchester, England, UK - L. L. Snead
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA - C. Stanek
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
Advisory Editorial Board
- P. Barberis
Ugine, France - T.S. Byun
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA - C.E. Coleman
AECL, Chalk River, Ontario, Canada - M. Demkowicz
Texas A & M University, Texas, USA - S.L. Dudarev
Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England, UK - C Fazio
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany - P. Garcia
CEA Cadarache, St Paul lez Duranc, France - F.A. Garner
Richland, USA - C. Guéneau
Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA), Gif-sur-Yvette, France - C.H. Henager
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA - P. Hosemann
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA - S. Ishino
Tokyo, Japan - C. Jang
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, The Republic of Korea - C. Jegou
CEA Marcoule, Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France - B. Kammenzind
Bechtel Bettis Inc, West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, USA - R. Kasada
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan - R. J. M. Konings
European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), Karlsruhe, Germany - P.A. Korzhavyi
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden - S. Maloy
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA - E. Marquis
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA - B.J. Marsden
University of Manchester, Manchester, UK - K. Minato
Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Ibaraki-ken, Japan - A. Motta
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA - M. Ojovan
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, Austria - P. Pareige
Rouen, France - S. Phillpot
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA - M. Puls
MPP Consulting, Oakville, Ontario, Canada - J. Roth
Max Planck Institut (MPI) für Plasmaphysik, Garching, Germany - P. Rudling
ANT International, Mölnlycke, Sweden - M. Stan
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA - Y. Ueda
Osaka University, Osaka, Japan - P. van Iseghem
- E.R. Vance
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - L. Werme
Uppsala Universitet, Uppsala, Sweden - B. Wirth
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA - C. Woo
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China - S. Yamanaka
Osaka University, Osaka, Japan - M. Yamawaki
Fukui University, Fukui, Japan - J.H. Yang
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI), Yuseong-Gu, Daejeon, The Republic of Korea - Z. Zhou
University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China