Materials Issues for Generation IV Systems: Status, Open Questions and Challenges

Foreword. List of Authors. The energy issue and the possible contribution of the various nuclear energy production scenarios; H. Nifenecker.- Outlook on Generation IV Nuclear Systems and related materials R&D challenges; F. Carré et al.- Fundamentals of neutronics: reactivity coefficients in nuclear reactors; P. Reuss.- Introduction to thermodynamics; G. Inden.- Kinetics of phase transformation in multi-component systems; G. Inden.- Ab initio approaches to designing thermodynamics properties of materials; A. Pasturel.- Correlation between electronic structure, magnetism and physical properties of Fe-Cr alloys: ab-initio modeling; I. Abrikosov.- The Computational Modeling of Alloys: From Ab Initio and Thermodynamics to Heterogeneous Precipitation; A. Caro.- Multiscale computer simulations for the study of radiation effects in materials; P. Geysermans.- A multiscale approach to measuring and modeling cleavage fracture toughness in structural steels; G.R. Odette et al.- Microstructures and mechanical properties of irradiated metals and alloys; S.J. Zinkle.- Multiscale modeling of RPV embrittlement; N.Soneda.- Parametric dislocation dynamics and boundary element modeling of elastic interaction between dislocations and precipitates; V.A.Takahashi.- Crystal plasticity from Dislocation Dynamics; V. Bulatov.- Radiation-induced solute segregation in alloys; A. Ardell.- Research and development of oxide dispersion strengthened ferritic steels for sodium cooled fast breeder reactor fuels; M. Inoue.- Some aspects of the structural, mechanical and electronic properties of SiC; P. Pirouz.- Review: Oxidation of SiC/SiC composites in low oxidizing and high temperature environment; C. Cabet.- Fundamentals of liquids; J.P. Hansen.- Introduction to interfaces and diffusion; P. Wynblatt.- Some aspects of wetting at high temperature; D. Chatain and V. Ghetta.- Potentiometric sensors for high temperature liquids; J. Fouletier and V. Ghetta.- Influence of liquid sodium onmechanical