The effect of neutron fluence on the Creep and growth of annealed zircaloy-4 at 340 k

Résumé du livre

The possibility of accelerating creep at low temperature in annealed zircaloy at high fluences, similar to previously reported growth 'breakaway' behaviour at temperatures above 500 k, has been investigated at 340 k using stress relaxation and irradiation growth tests on annealed zircaloy-4 pre-irradiated at 580 k to 5 x 10sup(24) and 8 x 10sup(25) n.m-2 e1 mev. test results suggest that both creep and growth rates are higher for the specimens pre-irradiated to the higher fluence, however, the stress relaxation data are not conclusive. the presence of c component dislocations, revealed by transmission electron microscopy, only in the high fluence material has been related previously to the growth 'breakaway' at 580 k, and appears to result in higher growth and creep rates at 340 k.