“…However, in a few X-ray diffraction studies of BeO irradiated to fast neutron doses (En> 1 Mev) of 1019 to 102° nvt, only anisotropic expansions of the hexagonal unit cell (Aa3/a3 ~4-7 × LJal/al) have been observed (Bacon & Wilson, 1955;Elston & Caillat, 1958;Clarke et al, 1961). Changes in reflection profiles after irradiation have been noted by Elston & Labbe (1961), but an interpretation of the effect was not given. The anisotropic lattice expansions usually have been attributed to random isolated point defects generated by the fast neutron flux.…”