The development of a modern energy based in nuclear power engineering and further advances in the exploration of space are determined to a large degree by the development of metallic materials for various functional applications, corresponding to the requirements of service reliability, economic efficiency and minimum disruption of ecology. The successful realisation of these requirements depends mainly on the application of metals and alloys characterised by high radiation resistance and accelerated decrease of induced radioactivity.

The physical fundamentals and principles of the development of these materials are based on the systematisation and further development of the considerations regarding the mechanisms and factors controlling changes in the structure, properties and activation parameters of irradiated objects, analysis of the mechanisms and the development of methods reducing the negative effect of radiation. We have also attempted to present the main material of this book using approach to the investigated problem

Special attention in the monograph is given to the analysis of the effect of the type and concentration of impurity and alloying elements and also phase changes in the mechanism of buildup of radiation defects and radiation damage to metallic materials. The considerations regarding the interaction of radiation point defects with each other and with solutes, the diffusion of point defects and solutes, radiation-enhanced diffusion and phase transformations in irradiation were used as a basis when describing these processes. These problems are studied extensively in the book.

Detailed analysis of radiation damage and methods of suppressing this type of damage on the basis...