Publications

Hydrogen diffusion across interfaces in zirconium

Jones, Reese E.; Reyes, Royce R.; Zhou, Xiaowang Z.; Foster, Michael E.; Spataru, Dan C.; Spearot , Doug S.

In order to study the effects of Ni oxidation barriers on H diffusion in Zr, a Ni-Zr-H potential was developed based on an existing Ni-Zr potential. Using this and existing binary potentials H diffusion characteristics were calculated and some limited findings for the performance of Ni on Zr coatings are made.