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How radiation interacts with surfaces is an important issue in materials that are used in both fusion and fission applications. In fusion the effects of how the plasma interacts with the internal surfaces of a tokomak and the best materials to minimise deleterious effects is an on-going research problem. In fission research, experimentally ion beams can used to simulate the effects of irradiation although often at dose rates that exceed those normally encountered in reactors. In both cases the materials used must be resilient to irradiation and such that they are environmentally friendly and do not remain radioactive for long periods of time. What happens at the surfaces of stored nuclear waste is also of prime importance as this waste must remain stored for many decades in a safe environment. In this case experiments on surrogate materials can be used to understand the processes but only modelling can predict the behaviour over long time periods. This two-day meeting is intended to bring together industrial and academic experimentalists and theoreticians to discuss these issues. The format will be a few invited talks from key scientists with ample opportunity for younger researchers to present their results either orally or in poster form.

Organised by the IOP Ion and Plasma Surface Interaction Group