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Title: Performance of liquid metal reactor fuel pins with D9 cladding

Abstract

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 and is similar in composition to 316 SS but with titanium additions of approx.0.25%. Three mixed-oxide (U,Pu)O/sub 2/ 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.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Hanford Engineering Development Lab., Richland, WA (USA)
OSTI Identifier:
7125012
Report Number(s):
HEDL-SA-3336-FP; CONF-851115-52
ON: DE87005456
DOE Contract Number:  
AC06-76FF02170
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: American Nuclear Society winter meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, 10 Nov 1985
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; ALLOY-D-9; FUEL CANS; FUEL PINS; PERFORMANCE; LMFBR TYPE REACTORS; MICROSTRUCTURE; STAINLESS STEEL-316; SWELLING; ALLOYS; BREEDER REACTORS; CHROMIUM ALLOYS; CHROMIUM STEELS; CHROMIUM-NICKEL STEELS; CORROSION RESISTANT ALLOYS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EPITHERMAL REACTORS; FAST REACTORS; FBR TYPE REACTORS; FUEL ELEMENTS; HEAT RESISTANT MATERIALS; HEAT RESISTING ALLOYS; IRON ALLOYS; IRON BASE ALLOYS; LIQUID METAL COOLED REACTORS; MATERIALS; MOLYBDENUM ALLOYS; NICKEL ALLOYS; NICKEL STEELS; NICKEL-CHROMIUM STEELS; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTORS; STAINLESS STEELS; STEELS; 210500* - Power Reactors, Breeding

Citation Formats

Makenas, B J, and Hales, J W. Performance of liquid metal reactor fuel pins with D9 cladding. United States: N. p., 1985. Web.
Makenas, B J, & Hales, J W. Performance of liquid metal reactor fuel pins with D9 cladding. United States.
Makenas, B J, and Hales, J W. 1985. "Performance of liquid metal reactor fuel pins with D9 cladding". United States.
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author = {Makenas, B J and Hales, J W},
abstractNote = {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 and is similar in composition to 316 SS but with titanium additions of approx.0.25%. Three mixed-oxide (U,Pu)O/sub 2/ 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.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/7125012}, journal = {},
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1985},
month = {Wed May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1985}
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