Common technologies and knowledge sharing

Organizers' intention: Materials research in fusion has extensively utilize d the outcomes of fission and non-nuclear technologies. The opposite was no t always true in the past years. Some of the knowledge and methodologies ev olved in fusion, however, are now mature and can be spun off to more generi c applications. Sharing of various common issues that may exist among the c urrent technologies and fusion is expected to yield fruitful interactions a nd effective solutions. Typical of those are: enhancing accuracy in predict ing neutron damage and various types of environment-assisted cracking, bett er ways of joining materials and detecting/preventing structural flaws and failure. (C) 1999 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.