Zirconium in the nuclear industry
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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ACCIDENTS
ACOUSTIC TESTING
ACTINIDE COMPOUNDS
ALKALI METAL COMPOUNDS
ALLOYS
ANNEALING
CHALCOGENIDES
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CHROMIUM ADDITIONS
CHROMIUM ALLOYS
CONTAINERS
CORROSION
CORROSIVE EFFECTS
CREEP
CRYSTAL STRUCTURE
DEFORMATION
DISSOLUTION
DOCUMENT TYPES
ELECTRON BEAM MELTING
ELEMENTS
EMBRITTLEMENT
ETCHING
EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY
FABRICATION
FRACTURE MECHANICS
FUEL ELEMENTS
FUEL RODS
HAFNIUM
HARDENING
HEAT TREATMENTS
HYDRIDATION
HYDRIDES
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
HYDROGEN EMBRITTLEMENT
HYDROXIDES
IRON ADDITIONS
IRON ALLOYS
JACKETS
LITHIUM COMPOUNDS
LITHIUM HYDROXIDES
LOSS OF COOLANT
MATERIALS
MATERIALS TESTING
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES
MECHANICS
MELTING
METALLURGY
METALS
MICROSTRUCTURE
NIOBIUM ALLOYS
NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING
OXIDATION
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS
PHYSICAL RADIATION EFFECTS
PRESSURE VESSELS
QUENCH HARDENING
RADIATION EFFECTS
REACTOR ACCIDENTS
REACTOR COMPONENTS
REACTOR MATERIALS
RECRYSTALLIZATION
REVIEWS
STRAINS
STRESS CORROSION
SURFACE FINISHING
TEMPERATURE EFFECTS
TESTING
TEXTURE
TIN ALLOYS
TRANSITION ELEMENT COMPOUNDS
TRANSITION ELEMENTS
ULTRASONIC TESTING
URANIUM COMPOUNDS
URANIUM OXIDES
ZIRCALOY
ZIRCALOY 2
ZIRCALOY 4
ZIRCONIUM ALLOYS
ZIRCONIUM BASE ALLOYS
ZIRCONIUM COMPOUNDS
ZIRCONIUM OXIDES