Recent status and improvement of reduced-activation ferritic-martensitic steels for high-temperature service

Tan, L.; Katoh, Y.; Tavassoli, A. -A. F.; Henry, J.; Rieth, M.; Sakasegawa, H.; Tanigawa, H.; Huang, Q.

doi:10.1016/j.jnucmat.2016.07.054

Title: Recent status and improvement of reduced-activation ferritic-martensitic steels for high-temperature service

Journal Article · Tue Jul 26 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Journal of Nuclear Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2016.07.054· OSTI ID:1286969

^[1]; Katoh, Y. ^[1]; Tavassoli, A. -A. F. ^[2]; Henry, J. ^[2];

^[3]; Sakasegawa, H. ^[4]; Tanigawa, H. ^[5]; Huang, Q. ^[6]

Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Saclay Nuclear Research Centre (France)
Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology (Germany)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); National Inst. for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Aomori (Japan)
National Inst. for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Aomori (Japan)
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Anhui (China)

Reduced-activation ferritic-martensitic (RAFM) steels, candidate structural materials for fusion reactors, have achieved technological maturity after about three decades of research and development. The recent status of a few developmental aspects of current RAFM steels, such as aging resistance, plate thickness effects, fracture toughness, and fatigue, is updated in this paper, together with ongoing efforts to develop next-generation RAFM steels for superior high-temperature performance. Additionally, to thermomechanical treatments, including nonstandard heat treatment, alloy chemistry refinements and modifications have demonstrated some improvements in high-temperature performance. Castable nanostructured alloys (CNAs) were developed by significantly increasing the amount of nanoscale MX (M = V/Ta/Ti, X = C/N) precipitates and reducing coarse M₂₃C₆ (M = Cr). Preliminary results showed promising improvement in creep resistance and Charpy impact toughness. We present and compare limited low-dose neutron irradiation results for one of the CNAs and China low activation martensitic with data for F82H and Eurofer97 irradiated up to ~70 displacements per atom at ~300–325 °C.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1286969

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1359434

Journal Information:: Journal of Nuclear Materials, Vol. 479, Issue C; ISSN 0022-3115

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Language:: English

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