Irradiation-induced swelling of pure chromium with 5 MeV Fe ions in the temperature range 450–650 °C
© 2020 A surface coating using pure chromium has been proposed to increase the accident tolerance of Zircaloy cladding in pressurized water reactors. However, there is not much irradiation experience with Cr alloys and especially pure Cr. In the present study, pure chromium was irradiated with 5 MeV...
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author | Ryabikovskaya, Ekaterina French, Aaron Gabriel, Adam Kim, Hyosim Wang, Tianyao Shirvan, Koroush Garner, Frank A Shao, Lin |
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description | © 2020 A surface coating using pure chromium has been proposed to increase the accident tolerance of Zircaloy cladding in pressurized water reactors. However, there is not much irradiation experience with Cr alloys and especially pure Cr. In the present study, pure chromium was irradiated with 5 MeV Fe ions to 50 peak dpa (displacements per atom) at temperatures of 450, 500, 550, 600 and 650 °C. Then irradiation at the peak swelling temperature of 550 °C was conducted to 50, 100, 150 peak dpa. Swelling at 50 dpa was observed over the entire temperature range studied, 450–650 °C, but appeared to be decreasing strongly at the temperature boundaries of the experiment. After an initial transient of rapid swelling, chromium was observed to swell at a rate of ~0.03–0.04%/dpa (up to 120 local dpa), which is much lower than pure Fe at 0.2%/dpa. This low swelling rate was found to be relatively insensitive to dpa rate, which varied by a factor of ~2 over the depth of data collection. Swelling was observed to begin quickly with an incubation period less than 10 dpa. Self-organization in the form of void ordering was observed to be developing at 50 dpa, becoming better defined with increasing dose. The void alignment direction is determined to be the 〈111〉 axial direction. |
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spelling | mit-1721.1/1329782023-12-06T18:42:43Z Irradiation-induced swelling of pure chromium with 5 MeV Fe ions in the temperature range 450–650 °C Ryabikovskaya, Ekaterina French, Aaron Gabriel, Adam Kim, Hyosim Wang, Tianyao Shirvan, Koroush Garner, Frank A Shao, Lin Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering © 2020 A surface coating using pure chromium has been proposed to increase the accident tolerance of Zircaloy cladding in pressurized water reactors. However, there is not much irradiation experience with Cr alloys and especially pure Cr. In the present study, pure chromium was irradiated with 5 MeV Fe ions to 50 peak dpa (displacements per atom) at temperatures of 450, 500, 550, 600 and 650 °C. Then irradiation at the peak swelling temperature of 550 °C was conducted to 50, 100, 150 peak dpa. Swelling at 50 dpa was observed over the entire temperature range studied, 450–650 °C, but appeared to be decreasing strongly at the temperature boundaries of the experiment. After an initial transient of rapid swelling, chromium was observed to swell at a rate of ~0.03–0.04%/dpa (up to 120 local dpa), which is much lower than pure Fe at 0.2%/dpa. This low swelling rate was found to be relatively insensitive to dpa rate, which varied by a factor of ~2 over the depth of data collection. Swelling was observed to begin quickly with an incubation period less than 10 dpa. Self-organization in the form of void ordering was observed to be developing at 50 dpa, becoming better defined with increasing dose. The void alignment direction is determined to be the 〈111〉 axial direction. 2021-10-15T14:03:28Z 2021-10-15T14:03:28Z 2020-10 2020-09 2021-10-15T12:00:39Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0022-3115 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/132978 Ekaterina Ryabikovskaya, Aaron French, Adam Gabriel, Hyosim Kim, Tianyao Wang, Koroush Shirvan, Frank A. Garner, Lin Shao, Irradiation-induced swelling of pure chromium with 5 MeV Fe ions in the temperature range 450–650 °C, Journal of Nuclear Materials, Volume 543, 2021 en 10.1016/J.JNUCMAT.2020.152585 Journal of Nuclear Materials Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ application/pdf Elsevier BV DOE repository |
spellingShingle | Ryabikovskaya, Ekaterina French, Aaron Gabriel, Adam Kim, Hyosim Wang, Tianyao Shirvan, Koroush Garner, Frank A Shao, Lin Irradiation-induced swelling of pure chromium with 5 MeV Fe ions in the temperature range 450–650 °C |
title | Irradiation-induced swelling of pure chromium with 5 MeV Fe ions in the temperature range 450–650 °C |
title_full | Irradiation-induced swelling of pure chromium with 5 MeV Fe ions in the temperature range 450–650 °C |
title_fullStr | Irradiation-induced swelling of pure chromium with 5 MeV Fe ions in the temperature range 450–650 °C |
title_full_unstemmed | Irradiation-induced swelling of pure chromium with 5 MeV Fe ions in the temperature range 450–650 °C |
title_short | Irradiation-induced swelling of pure chromium with 5 MeV Fe ions in the temperature range 450–650 °C |
title_sort | irradiation induced swelling of pure chromium with 5 mev fe ions in the temperature range 450 650 °c |
url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/132978 |
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