Principal Investigator Boris Khaykovich
Dr. Khaykovich is interested in various aspects of degradation of materials used in power reactors, such as structural alloys, graphite, etc. He is using neutron-scattering and synchrotron X-ray methods to study hydrogen retention in structural alloys in light-water reactors. Another project is materials degradation in proposed molten-salt reactors, where materials have to withstand intense neutron and gamma fluxes, and high temperatures, reaching 700 °C and beyond.