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BRIAN L. EYRE
BRIAN L. EYRE
Pages 104-107
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In 1962 he moved to Harwell, the UK Atomic Energy Research Laboratory, which was then in its golden years as a fountainhead of nuclear research and technology. He soon had his own group in the Metallurgy Division, doing electron transmission microscopy on irradiated metals such as iron and 105
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Experimental electron microscopy measurements of the shape, size, and orientation of interstitial loops could be explained by analytical calculations of their elastic energy. A later example was in the important practical problem of void swelling, where stainless steel cladding in the Dounreay Fast Reactor was observed to distort because of voids formed by the amalgamation of excess vacancies caused by irradiation.
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In retirement Brian remained as active as ever from his office at the Oxford University's Materials Department. But he made time for his love of sailing with his wife Carol, who sadly developed multiple sclerosis.
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