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.

Papers submitted to JNM should exhibit a high degree of novelty and contain a significant discussion section that analyzes and interprets the results with outcomes that advance our understanding and push the field forward. Incremental research papers are not acceptable.

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.

Topics covered by JNM

    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; materials aspects of the 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 relevant to nuclear systems.

Topics NOT covered by JNM

Topics in nuclear engineering and other areas not addressing materials, such as:

    Particle transport, cross-sections, shielding or isotope ratios (Radiation Physics and Chemistry; Annals of Nuclear Energy, Applied Radiation and Isotopes)
    Process engineering (Materials Science and Engineering A; Materials and Design)
    Leaching or chemical kinetics studies in aqueous, salt or other media (Hydrometallurgy; Chemical Engineering Science)
    Thermal hydraulics or properties of fluids (Nuclear Engineering and Design)
    Uranium extraction, uranium ore processing, and isotope separation processes (Nuclear Engineering and Design; Progress in Nuclear Energy)
    Fission or fusion reactor design and technology (Nuclear Engineering and Design; Fusion Engineering & Design)
    Plasma physics (Physics Letters A)
Materials topics not addressing nuclear applications, such as general studies in:
    Physical and chemical properties including modeling and simulation (Materials Science and Engineering A; Materials Letters)
    Metallurgy (Journal of Alloys and Compounds; Materials Science and Engineering A)
    Corrosion (Corrosion Science)
    Welding and joining (Journal of Alloys and Compounds; Materials and Design)
    Ceramics (Journal of the European Ceramics Society; Ceramics international)

Special Issue on NUMAT 2024
截稿日期: 2025-01-31

Guest editors:

Dr. Ann Leenaers
Belgian Nuclear Research Center, Belgium

Dr. Suzy MorganNational Nuclear Laboratory, United Kingdom

Dr. Radim Kopriva
ÚJV Řež as, Czechia

Special issue information:

The Nuclear Materials Conference (NuMat) was created in 2012 in association with the Journal of Nuclear Materials to serve as an umbrella for international meetings on nuclear materials science related to fission and fusion reactors and the overall nuclear fuel cycle. Following topics are covered :

    Metallic alloys for structural components
    Refractory metallic materials
    Cladding materials including coatings
    Fuel materials, absorbers, and fuel cladding interaction
    Cement & ceramics
    Polymers
    Advanced manufacturing
    Simulation of radiation damage
    Fundamental radiation effects in materials
    Linking simulations and experiments in nuclear materials

Manuscript submission information:

Submission Open Date: October 14, 2024
Submission Close Date: Jan 31, 2025

The journal’s submission platform (Editorial Manager®)will be available for receiving submissions to this Special Issue on or before October 14, 2024. Please refer to the Guide for Authors to prepare your manuscript, and select the article type of "VSI: NUMAT 2024" when submitting your manuscript online. Both the Guide for Authors and the submission portal could be found on the Journal Homepage. 

All the submissions deemed suitable to be sent for peer review will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Upon its editorial acceptance, your article will go into production immediately. It will be published in the latest regular issue, while be presented on the specific Special Issue webpage simultaneously. In regular issues, Special Issue articles will be clearly marked and branded.

Keywords:

Nuclear materials research, fission and fusion applications, Fuel systems, functional materials