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Zirconium in the nuclear industry

Conference ·
OSTI ID:5897872

This book examines the properties of Zircaloy-2, Zircaloy-4, and Zr-2.5Nb with regard to their use as structural materials in nuclear reactors. Topics considered include refinement and fabrication (extractive metallurgy, zirconium and hafnium separation, electron-beam remelting, pressure tube development, cold working and heat treatments), basic metallurgical studies (etching, strain anisotropy, fuel cladding, anneal hardening, recrystallization, hydrides in zirconium alloy tubes), texture and irradiation creep (microstructure, ultrasonic velocity, in-reactor creep, fuel rods, deformation), irradiation growth (proton and neutron bombardment, high-fluence irradiation growth), corrosion (ZrO/sub 2/ films, aqueous corrosion kinetics, corrosive effects of lithium hydroxide, oxidation films, hydridation), fracture studies (stress-corrosion cracking, hydrogen cracking), and high-temperature and transient effects (cladding deformation in LOCA, high-temperature behavior of fuel rods, steam oxidation kinetics, dissolution of solid UO/sub 2/ by molten Zircaloy-4).

OSTI ID:
5897872
Report Number(s):
CONF-820662-
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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