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Todreas, N. T. Testimony before the Hearing on R&D Priorities in the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership - Subcommittee on Energy Committee on Science, United States House of Representatives. April 6, 2006. (PDF)

Lester, R. K. "New Nukes." Issues in Science and Technology 22, no. 4 (Summer 2006): 39-46.

Chapter 1 in The Future of Nuclear Power: An Interdisciplinary MIT Study. 2003.

GenIV International Forum. "A Technology Roadmap for Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems." U.S. DOE, GIF-002-00, December 2002.

CEA Nuclear Energy Division. "Future Nuclear Energy Systems R&D Strategy in France." April 12, 2005

Xu, Mi. "Status and Prospects of Sustainable Nuclear Power Supply in China." Proceedings of GLOBAL 2005. Tsukuba, Japan: October 9-13, 2005, Paper 511.

"Strategy for the Development of Power Engineering in Russia for the First Half of the 21st Century: Principal Provisions." Ministry of Atomic Power Engineering of the Russian Federation. Moscow, 2000.

"Millennium Summit." Excerpt from Address Made by President of Russian Federation V. V. Putin at UN Summit. September 6, 2000.

Adamov, Y. O. "Nuclear Power May Get Its Second Wind in the 21st Century." Nuclear News (November 2000): 38-42.

Todreas, N. T. "Comment on Adamov Paper." Nuclear News (November 2000). (PDF)

"Uranium: Glowing." The Economist (August 17, 2006): 53-54.

Nocera, Joseph. "On Oil Supply, Opinions Aren't Scarce." New York Times, September 10, 2005.

Meneley, D. A. "Transition to Large Scale Nuclear Energy Supply."

Class Note 2: Thermal Hydraulics Design Limits. (PDF)

U.S. NRC. "Thermal and Hydraulic Design." Section 4.4 in Standard Review Plan NUREG-0800. (PDF)

Ferroni, P., M. Fratoni, and N. Todreas, et al. "Feasibility of Improving BWR Performance Using Hydride Fuel." Paper 6241 in Proceedings of ICAPP '06. Reno, NV: USA, June 4-8, 2006.

Fratoni, M., and E. Greenspan. "Optimal Hydride Fueled BWR Assembly Designs." Advances in Nuclear Analysis and Simulation, PHYSOR 2006. Vancouver, BC: Canada, September 10-14, 2006.

Todreas, N. T. "Perspectives on the Economics of Nuclear Power from the MIT Study." (PDF)

Wald, Matthew L. "Committed to Coal, and in a Hurry, Too." New York Times, November 7, 2006, p. C1.

Materials Selection Process

Radiation Damage Effects and Their Design Implications

Environmental Degradation and its Design Implications

PWR Materials Applications

GFR Materials Applications

The following sections in Korb, L. J., ed. Metals Handbook. 9th ed. Volume 13, Corrosion. Materials Park, OH: ASM International, 1987. ISBN: 9780871700193.
Craig, B., and S. L. Pohlman. "Introduction."
Pohlman, S. L., ed. "General Corrosion."
Dexter, S. C., ed. "Localized Corrosion."
Steigerwald, R. "Metallurgically Influenced Corrosion."
Silverman, D. C., and R. B. Puyear. "Effects of Environmental Variables on Aqueous Corrosion."

Ma, B. "Fundamental Radiation Effects on Materials." Chapter 4 in Nuclear Reactor Materials and Applications. New York, NY: Springer-Varlag, 1982. ISBN: 9780442225599.

Olander, Donald E. "Radiation Damage." Chapter 17 in Fundamental Aspects of Nuclear Reactor Fuel Elements. Washington, DC: U.S. DOE, 1976. (PDF 1 - 2.0 MB) (PDF 2 - 1.9 MB)

U.S. NRC. "Radiation Embrittlement of Reactor Vessel Materials." In Regulatory Guide 1.99 (Revision 2, May 1988). (PDF - 1.6 MB)^#

———. "Reevaluation of the pressurized thermal shock rule (10 CFR 50.61) screening criterion." June 23, 2000.

Kohyama, A., et al. "R&D of Advanced Material Systems for Reactor Core Component of Gas Cooled Fast Reactor." Proceedings of ICAPP '05. Seoul: Korea, May 15-19, 2005. Paper 5282.

The following sections in Korb, L. J., ed. Metals Handbook. 9th ed. Volume 13, Corrosion. Materials Park, OH: ASM International, 1987. ISBN: 9780871700193.
Marek, M. I., et al. "Thermodynamics of Aqueous Corrosion."
Shoesmith, D. W. "Kinetics of Aqueous Corrosion."

Nuclear Energy Agency, OECD. "Accelerator-driven Systems (ADS) and Fast Reactors (FR) in Advanced Nuclear Fuel Cycles." NEA No. 3109, 2002.

———. "Fuels and Materials for Transmutation." NEA No. 5419, 2005. (PDF)

Olander, Donald E. "Radiation Effects in Metals: Hardening, Embrittlement, and Fracture," and "Radiation Effects in Metals: Void Swelling and Irradiation Creep." Chapters 18 and 19 in Fundamental Aspects of Nuclear Reactor Fuel Elements. Washington, DC: U.S. DOE, 1976. (PDF 1 - 4.9 MB) (PDF 2 - 4.8 MB)

U.S. NRC. Standard Review Plan for Review of License Renewal Applications for Nuclear Power Plants. NUREG-1800, Rev. 1. September, 2005. (PDF - 1.5 MB)

———. Generic Aging Lessons Learned (GALL) Report. (PDF 1 - 1.1 MB) (PDF 2 - 4.3 MB)