Performance of Liquid Metal Reactor Fuel Pins with D9 Cladding

Conference · Wed May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1985

OSTI ID:7125012

Makenas, B. J ^[1]; Hales, J. W. ^[1]

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1. Hanford Engineering Development Lab., Richland, WA (United States)

The use of 316 stainless steel (SS) for Liquid Metal Fast Reactor applications is limited because of its tendency to swell significantly under neutron irradiation. Consequently, a number of alloys have been proposed as advanced cladding materials including precipitation hardened alloys, ferritic materials, and titanium modified versions of austenitic 316 SS. One of the latter type of alloys is called D9 and is similar in composition to 316 SS but with titanium additions of ~0.25%. Three mixed-oxide (U,Pu)O₂ fuel tests containing D9-clad pins have been successfully irradiated in EBR-II. They have demonstrated significantly lower swelling for D9 than for the reference 316 SS cladding and have shown that the behavior of D9 is very similar to 316 SS with respect to other properties important to reactor design. In two of the tests (designated P43 and P44), D9 was irradiated side-by-side with various other cladding materials. Two different variations of D9 (differing primarily in molybdenum), two cladding cold work levels, and two fuel smeared densities (85% and 89% TD) were explored. The third test, P45, was made up exclusively of 20% CW D9-clad pins.

• Research Organization: Hanford Engineering Development Lab., Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76FF02170
• OSTI ID: 7125012
• Report Number(s): HEDL-SA-3336-FP; CONF-851115-52; ON: DE87005456
• Resource Type: Conference paper
• Conference Information: American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting, San Francisco, CA (United States), 10-15 Nov 1985
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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