Radiation damage in graphite

BOOK REVIEW J. H. W. SEhlMONS: Radiation Damage Pergamon Press, 242 pp., 80s.

vided, and the subject index and author index are adequate. A table of printing errors at the back of the book is not complete but only a few errors were detected by this reviewer. There are slightly over 300 references to the literature. This reviewer is critical of several non-technical features of the book. The introduction is too short and fails to provide part of the author’s audience-the beginning researcher-with an adequate “feel” for the relationship between the structure of graphite and its properties. Electron micrographs essential to the discussion of defects are placed at the very front of the book instead of in the text where they belong. One 1965 literature reference appears in the book on the last page of Chapter 2 where it is used to qualify the discussion in this chapter, This conspicuous attempt to be right up to date is unnecessary and reduces the effectiveness of the Chapter. Finally, the writing is noticeably uneven in places suggesting haste. Every serious worker in graphite research and engineering should have this book in his library. W. S. DIETHORN

in Graphite,

AFTER two decades

of graphite research, the effects of radiation damage are well documented and some useful reactor design guidelines have been established. But understanding these effects in terms of microscopic processes continues to be a most difficult and elusive goal. In the author’s words “this book gives a general account of the work and it is hoped that it will be of use to those who wish to apply the results to practical reactor problems as well as to those who are about to commence research in the field”. These modest objectives are certainly achieved in this very readable volume of 242 pages. The author has achieved the diflicult task of pulling together nicely the major research results and theories up to 1963. A short introduction and seven chapters of about equal length cover the topics of atom displacement mechanics, defects, electrical, magnetic, and mechanical properties, dimensional changes, and stored energy. A convenient glossary of mathematical symbols is pro-

EDITORIAL GRAPHITE THE AIME

(American

Symposium

in Delavan, Wisconsin

A number

Institute

of Mining,

of papers were presented

Nightingale,

P. T. Nettley

MEETINGS

Metallurgical

by scientists

and W. H. Martin,

from the U.S.A.

At the first Nuclear Division Meeting of the American participated

J. W. Helm, W. N. Reynolds,

and Petroleum

M. Burkett

1966 a half-day session was devoted to “Radiation scientists

IN THE

U.S.A. Engineers)

sponsored a Nuclear Metallurgy

on October 3-5, 1966 in which half a day was devoted to nuclear uses of graphite.

Goeddel and J. C. Bokros, R. J. Bard and J. M. Taub,

and U.K.

SECTION

by presenting C. A. Thrower

and U.K.:

and W. Eatherly,

and M. Simnad,

R. E. W. V.

and R. A. U. Huddle. D. V. Ragone presided at this session. Ceramic Society held in Portland, Oregon on October 26-28,

Effects in Nuclear

papers:

P. Fortescue

J. Sayers and J. DeNordwall,

Graphite

R. E. Nightingale,

and Carbon”.

Again several U.S.A.

J. H. W. Simmons,

and 0. D. Slagle, with H. H. Yoshikawa

presiding

W. C. Morgan at this session.

and