The Journal of Nuclear Materials publishes high quality papers in materials research for nuclear applications, primarily fission reactors, fusion reactors, and similar environments including radiation areas of charged particle accelerators. Both original research and critical review papers covering experimental, theoretical, and computational aspects of either fundamental or applied nature are welcome.

Papers submitted to JNM should exhibit a high degree of novelty and contain a significant discussion section that analyzes and interprets the results with outcomes that advance our understanding and push the field forward. Incremental research papers are not acceptable.

The breadth of the field is such that a wide range of processes and properties in the field of materials science and engineering is of interest to the readership, spanning atom-scale processes, microstructures, thermodynamics, mechanical properties, physical properties, and corrosion, for example.

Topics covered by JNM
Fission reactor materials, including fuels, cladding, core structures, pressure vessels, coolant interactions with materials, moderator and control components, fission product behavior.
Materials aspects of the entire fuel cycle.
Materials aspects of the actinides and their compounds.
Performance of nuclear waste materials; materials aspects of the immobilization of wastes.
Fusion reactor materials, including first walls, blankets, insulators and magnets.
Neutron and charged particle radiation effects in materials, including defects, transmutations, microstructures, phase changes and macroscopic properties.
Interaction of plasmas, ion beams, electron beams and electromagnetic radiation with materials relevant to nuclear systems.
Topics NOT covered by JNM

Topics in nuclear engineering and other areas not addressing materials, such as:
Particle transport, cross-sections, shielding or isotope ratios (Radiation Physics and Chemistry; Annals of Nuclear Energy, Applied Radiation and Isotopes)
Process engineering (Materials Science and Engineering A; Materials and Design)
Leaching or chemical kinetics studies in aqueous, salt or other media (Hydrometallurgy; Chemical Engineering Science)
Thermal hydraulics or properties of fluids (Nuclear Engineering and Design)
Uranium extraction, uranium ore processing, and isotope separation processes (Nuclear Engineering and Design; Progress in Nuclear Energy)
Fission or fusion reactor design and technology (Nuclear Engineering and Design; Fusion Engineering & Design)
Plasma physics (Physics Letters A)
Materials topics not addressing nuclear applications, such as general studies in:
Physical and chemical properties including modeling and simulation (Materials Science and Engineering A; Materials Letters)
Metallurgy (Journal of Alloys and Compounds; Materials Science and Engineering A)
Corrosion (Corrosion Science)
Welding and joining (Journal of Alloys and Compounds; Materials and Design)
Ceramics (Journal of the European Ceramics Society; Ceramics international)

original research papers, critical reviews, and short communications.

Editor-in-Chief
G. S. Was
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States Email G. S. Was
Senior Editors
D.A. Petti
Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States
S. Ukai
Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
S.J. Zinkle
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Associate Editors
J. P. Crocombette
French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission Saclay Center, Gif sur Yvette, France
N. Dacheux
Institute of Separative Chemistry Marcoule, Bagnols sur Ceze, France
Y Dai
Paul Scherrer Institute Laboratory of Biomolecular Research, Villigen, Switzerland
K. Fukuya
Institute of Nuclear Safety System Inc, Mikata-Gun, Japan
Q. Huang
Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Plasma Physics, Hefei, China
R. Hunt
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
L. Malerba
Research Centre for Energy Environment and Technology, Madrid, Spain
M. Preuss
The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
L. L. Snead
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
C. Stanek
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States
Advisory Editorial Board
P. Barberis
Ugine, France
T.S. Byun
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States
C.E. Coleman
Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd, Chalk River, Ontario, Canada
M. Demkowicz
Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, Texas, United States
S.L. Dudarev
Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, Abingdon, United Kingdom
C Fazio
European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), Petten, Netherlands
P. Garcia
French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission Cadarache Centre, St Paul les Durance, France
F. A. Garner
Richland, USA
C. Guéneau
French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission Saclay Center, Gif sur Yvette, France
C.H. Henager
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States
P. Hosemann
University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States
P. van Iseghem
S. Ishino
Tokyo, Japan
C. Jang
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of
C. Jegou
French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission Marcoule, Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France
B. Kammenzind
Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory, West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States
R. Kasada
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
R. J. M. Konings, PhD
European Commission Joint Research Centre Karlsruhe, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
P.A. Korzhavyi
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
S. Maloy
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States
E. Marquis
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
B.J. Marsden
The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
K. Minato
Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Naka-Gun, Japan
A. Motta
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States
M. Ojovan
International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria
P. Pareige
Rouen, France
S. Phillpot
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States
M. Puls
MPP Consulting, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
J. Roth
Max-Planck-Institute of Plasma Physics, Garching, Germany
P. Rudling
ANT International, Mölnlycke, Sweden
M. Stan
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Wisconsin, United States
Y. Ueda
Osaka University School of Engineering Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka, Japan
E.R. Vance
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Kirrawee, Australia
B. Wirth
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
S. Yamanaka
Osaka University School of Engineering Graduate School of Engineering Department of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering, Suita, Japan
J.H. Yang
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of
Z. Zhou
University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China