Embrittlement recovery due to annealing of reactor pressure vessel steels

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 179, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 257-265

  Eason, E D ^a   Wright, J E ^a   Nelson, E E ^a   Odette, G R ^b   Mader, E V ^b,c  

^a Modeling and Computing Services LLC   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c BETTIS ATOMIC POWER LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Embrittlement; Reactor pressure vessels; Thermal annealing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004117459     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-5493(97)00286-0     Document Type: Article

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