Superconducting windings will be necessary in future fusion reactors to generate the strong magnetic fields needed to confine the plasma, and these superconducting materials will inevitably be exposed to neutron damage. It is known that this exposure results in the creation of isolated damage cascades, but the presence of these defects alone is not sufficient to explain the degradation of macroscopic superconducting properties and a quantitative method is needed to assess the subtle lattice damage in between the clusters.

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YBa2Cu3O7-x高温超导带中的中子辐射损伤分析

未来的聚变反应堆将需要超导绕组来产生限制等离子体所需的强磁场，而这些超导材料将不可避免地受到中子损伤。众所周知，这种暴露会导致产生孤立的损伤级联，但仅凭这些缺陷的存在不足以解释宏观超导特性的退化，需要一种定量方法来评估簇之间的细微晶格损伤。