DEVELOPMENT AND PROPERTIES OF SILVER-BASE ALLOYS AS CONTROL ROD MATERIALS FOR PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:4202490
The metallurgical design and properties of silver-base alloys which show considerable promise of fulfilling metallurgy, physics, and mechanical design requirements of control rods for nuclear pressurized water reactor plant service are described. By extension of the Hume-Rothery electron concentration rule, ternary and quatennary Agbase alloys were designed for metallurgical stability, and their physics worth. corrosion, and physical and mechanical properties were determined. Of particular interest is the Ag + 15 wt.% In + 5 wt.% Cd alloy which is comparable to hafnium in neutron absorption characteristics. (auth)
- Research Organization:
- Westinghouse Electric Corp. Bettis Atomic Power Lab., Pittsburgh
- DOE Contract Number:
- AT(11-1)-GEN-14
- NSA Number:
- NSA-14-006621
- OSTI ID:
- 4202490
- Report Number(s):
- WAPD-214
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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