Excerpt from the Executive Summary:
The fundamental challenge is to understand and control chemical and physical phenomena in multi-component systems from femto-seconds to millenia, at temperatures to 1000°C, and for radiation doses to hundreds of displacements per atom (dpa). This is a scientific challenge of enormous proportions, with broad implications in the materials science and chemistry of complex systems...... New multiscale approaches are needed to integrate this knowledge into accurate models of relevant phenomena and complex systems across multiple length and time scales.

Citation: "Basic Research Needs for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems," J. Roberto and T. Diaz de la Rubia (Cochairs), Report of the Basic Energy Sciences Workshop on Basic Research Needs for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems, July 31-August 3, 2006.

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