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Influence of the Irradiation Temperature on the Formation of Defects in Reactor Pressure Vessel Steels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

M. Große
Affiliation:
: Research Center Rossendorf, P.O.Box 510119, 01314 Dresden, Germany
A. Hempel
Affiliation:
: Research Center Rossendorf, P.O.Box 510119, 01314 Dresden, Germany
J. Böhmert
Affiliation:
: Research Center Rossendorf, P.O.Box 510119, 01314 Dresden, Germany
G. Brauer
Affiliation:
: Positron Group of Technical University Dresden at Research Center Rossendorf, P.O.Box 510119, 01314 Dresden, Germany
F. M. Haggag
Affiliation:
: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O.Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 - 6151
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Abstract

Two heats of reactor pressure vessel steel type A533-B-1 differing in their Cu content (0.07 and 0.14 wt.-%) were irradiated to a fluence of 1* 1018 neutrons/cm2 at temperatures of 60, 121, and 288 °C, respectively. Their microstructure has been studied by SANS, SAXS, and PAS in the asirradiated and post-irradiation annealed stages and compared to the behaviour of unirradiated material and the results are discussed.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1997

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