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Chapter 4—The General Electric Company Surveillance Programs for Boiling Water Reactor Pressure Vessels

Higgins, JP


Kass, JN

Pages: 19    Published: Jan 1983

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Abstract

At neutron (n) fluences above a threshhold level of approximately 10¹⁷ n/cm², exposure to neutron radiation (>1 MeV) has been shown to have a measurable effect on the mechanical properties of ferritic steels such as the low-alloy steels used for fabrication of light-water reactor pressure vessels (RPV's).