ISSN: 0090-3973
Page Count: 28

Structural Materials for Nuclear Power Plants
Bush, SH
Senior staff consultant, Battelle Memorial Institute, Pacific Northwest Laboratories, Wash.

Abstract

Commercial ferritic and austenitic steels are the predominant materials used in both fossil and nuclear power plants; the significant difference in nuclear plants is the exposure to neutron fluence. Three aspects of material behavior are reviewed: (1) the role of residual elements on radiation damage of steels used for water reactor pressure vessels, (2) influence of neutron-gamma flux and water reactor coolant on stress corrosion, and (3) neutron-induced swelling and void formation in austenitic stainless steels in fast reactors.

Keywords:
nuclear power plants, construction materials, stainless steels, austenitic stainless steels, ferritic steels, fluence, neutron flux

Paper ID: JTE11676J
DOI: 10.1520/JTE11676J
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