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Title: Status report on assessment of environmentally assisted fatigue for LWR extended service conditions

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1168222· OSTI ID:1168222
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  1. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

This report provides an update on an earlier assessment of environmentally assisted fatigue for light water reactor (LWR) materials under extended service conditions. This report is a deliverable in September 2013, under the work package for environmentally assisted fatigue in the Light Water Reactor Sustainability (LWRS) program. The overall objective of this LWRS project is to assess the degradation by environmentally assisted cracking/fatigue of LWR materials, such as various alloy base metals and their welds used in reactor coolant system piping. This effort is to support the U.S. Department of Energy LWRS program for developing tools to predict the aging/failure mechanism and to correspondingly predict the remaining life of LWR components for anticipated 60-80 year operation.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), Reactor Fleet and Advanced Reactor Development. Nuclear Reactor Technologies
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-06CH11357
OSTI ID:
1168222
Report Number(s):
ANL/LWRS-13/3
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
ENGLISH