US fast reactor materials and structures program

Conference · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:5614120

Harms, W O; Purdy, C M

Materials and structures problems are central to many critical issues concerning the economic competitiveness, reliable performance, and safety of liquid metal fast breeder reactor (LMFBR) power plants. The US Department of Energy has sponsored for many years a national LMFBR materials and structures program. The objectives of the program are (1) to provide the technological basis for assuring that LMFBR components and systems will be free from significant structural failures during their design lifetimes and (2) to develop materials, design methods and criteria, materials property data, and procedures - all aimed at providing for broad flexibility in LMFBR component and system design and operation. Technology areas included in the program are high-temperature structural design; seismic design; mechanical properties design data; fabrication; tribology (friction, wear, and self-welding); coolant technology (sodium and steam/water); advanced structural alloys; and nondestructive testing. It is the purpose of this study to indicate briefly for each of the program's technology areas the objective, the scope, and some significant accomplishments. Future directions for the program are also discussed.

• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• OSTI ID: 5614120
• Resource Relation: Conference: ASM conference on materials for future energy systems, Washington, DC, USA, 1-4 May 1984; Related Information: Metals/materials technology series
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
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DESIGN
FABRICATION
IMPURITIES
PHYSICAL RADIATION EFFECTS
TRIBOLOGY
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RADIATION EFFECTS
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