embrittlement

Under intense multi-decade stress from heat and radiation, all suffer dangerously from embrittlement of critical metals and degradation of structural concrete.

Harvey Wasserman: America's Eggshell Nukes Harvey Wasserman 2010

Under intense multi-decade stress from heat and radiation, all suffer dangerously from embrittlement of critical metals and degradation of structural concrete.

Harvey Wasserman: America's Eggshell Nukes Harvey Wasserman 2010

Under intense multi-decade stress from heat and radiation, all suffer dangerously from embrittlement of critical metals and degradation of structural concrete.

Harvey Wasserman: America's Eggshell Nukes Harvey Wasserman 2010

Under intense multi-decade stress from heat and radiation, all suffer dangerously from embrittlement of critical metals and degradation of structural concrete.

Harvey Wasserman: America's Eggshell Nukes Harvey Wasserman 2010

Under intense multi-decade stress from heat and radiation, all suffer dangerously from embrittlement of critical metals and degradation of structural concrete.

Harvey Wasserman: America's Eggshell Nukes Harvey Wasserman 2010

This raises questions of embrittlement, and has had to be checked carefully before extending licences.

Safety of nuclear power reactors 2009

Congressional pressure then demanded an embrittlement inspection that the reactor's owners would not do.

Harvey Wasserman: Yet Another $50 Billion for Rust-Bucket Nukes? 2009

Aging US reactors are plagued with the embrittlement of key interior metal components which threaten their continued safety;

Harvey Wasserman: Obama's Stimulus Money Must Not Be Wasted on Nuke Reactors 2009

For instance, some steels become brittle, and alloys which resist embrittlement must be used in nuclear reactors.

Research reactors 2009

For most plastics, heat absorption was the key to rapid embrittlement, and the cooler ocean environment acted as a heat sink, slowing the process.

Laurie David: Captain Moore on the Dangers of Styrofoam 2009