Transmutation in copper-base brazing materials

Technical Report · Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1994

OSTI ID:47734

Garner, F A; Greenwood, L R; Edwards, D J ^[1]

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1. Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)

Brazing compounds containing silver or gold will transmute during irradiation, forming significant amounts of either cadmium or mercury, respectively, in all neutron spectra of current interest to the fusion materials program. The impact of this transmutation on braze performance and on development of fission-fusion correlations has yet to be determined, but will be addressed in an irradiation experiment that was recently completed in FFTF-MOTA. A lesser amount of transmutation will occur in brazes containing tin, but no specimens containing brazes with tin have yet been irradiated.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 47734
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER-0313/16; ON: DE95003404; TRN: 95:011264
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: Sep 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of Fusion materials semiannual progress report for the period ending March 31, 1994; PB: 534 p.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION
BRAZING ALLOYS
IRRADIATION
TRANSMUTATION
SILVER ALLOYS
GOLD ALLOYS
THERMONUCLEAR REACTOR MATERIALS
PHYSICAL RADIATION EFFECTS
PROGRESS REPORT
FFTF REACTOR