Method to predict relative hydriding within a group of zirconium alloys under nuclear irradiation
Abstract
An out-of-reactor method for screening to predict relative in-reactor hydriding behavior of zirconium-based materials is disclosed. Samples of zirconium-based materials having different compositions and/or fabrication methods are autoclaved in a relatively concentrated (0.3 to 1.0M) aqueous lithium hydroxide solution at constant temperatures within the water reactor coolant temperature range (280 to 316 C). Samples tested by this out-of-reactor procedure, when compared on the basis of the ratio of hydrogen weight gain to oxide weight gain, accurately predict the relative rate of hydriding for the same materials when subject to in-reactor (irradiated) corrosion. 1 figure.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 7167792
- Patent Number(s):
- 4916076
- Application Number:
- PPN: US 7-208332
- Assignee:
- Battelle Memorial Inst., Richland, WA (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC06-76RL01830
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 17 Jun 1988
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; ZIRCONIUM ALLOYS; HYDRIDATION; HYDROGEN EMBRITTLEMENT; RADIATION EFFECTS; FORECASTING; MATERIALS TESTING; REACTOR MATERIALS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; ALLOYS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; EMBRITTLEMENT; MATERIALS; REACTORS; TESTING; 360106* - Metals & Alloys- Radiation Effects; 360105 - Metals & Alloys- Corrosion & Erosion; 360103 - Metals & Alloys- Mechanical Properties; 210100 - Power Reactors, Nonbreeding, Light-Water Moderated, Boiling Water Cooled; 210200 - Power Reactors, Nonbreeding, Light-Water Moderated, Nonboiling Water Cooled
Citation Formats
Johnson, Jr, A B, Levy, I S, Trimble, D J, Lanning, D D, and Gerber, F S. Method to predict relative hydriding within a group of zirconium alloys under nuclear irradiation. United States: N. p., 1990.
Web.
Johnson, Jr, A B, Levy, I S, Trimble, D J, Lanning, D D, & Gerber, F S. Method to predict relative hydriding within a group of zirconium alloys under nuclear irradiation. United States.
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"Method to predict relative hydriding within a group of zirconium alloys under nuclear irradiation". United States.
@article{osti_7167792,
title = {Method to predict relative hydriding within a group of zirconium alloys under nuclear irradiation},
author = {Johnson, Jr, A B and Levy, I S and Trimble, D J and Lanning, D D and Gerber, F S},
abstractNote = {An out-of-reactor method for screening to predict relative in-reactor hydriding behavior of zirconium-based materials is disclosed. Samples of zirconium-based materials having different compositions and/or fabrication methods are autoclaved in a relatively concentrated (0.3 to 1.0M) aqueous lithium hydroxide solution at constant temperatures within the water reactor coolant temperature range (280 to 316 C). Samples tested by this out-of-reactor procedure, when compared on the basis of the ratio of hydrogen weight gain to oxide weight gain, accurately predict the relative rate of hydriding for the same materials when subject to in-reactor (irradiated) corrosion. 1 figure.},
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