SYMPOSIA PAPER Published: 01 January 1983
STP29423S

Chapter 5—The Westinghouse Electric Corporation Reactor Vessel Radiation Surveillance Program

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Westinghouse recognized that the disruption of the atomic lattice of metals by collision from energetic neutrons could alter the properties of the metals to such an extent that the changes could be of engineering significance. Furthermore, it was recognized that a physical-metallurgical phenomenon such as aging, both thermal and mechanical, also could alter the properties of a metal over its service life. Because of the potential changes in properties, reactor vessel radiation surveillance programs to monitor the effect of neutron radiation and other environmental factors on the reactor vessel materials during operational conditions over the life of the plant were initiated for Westinghouse plants with the insertion of reactor vessel material radiation surveillance capsules into the Yankee Atomic Company's Yankee-Rowe plant in 1961 [1–3].

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Mager, TR
Anderson, SL
Yanichko, SE
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Developed by Committee: E10
Pages: 151–188
DOI: 10.1520/STP29423S
ISBN-EB: 978-0-8031-4855-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-8031-0229-3