Assessment of irradiation response of WWER-440 welds using samples taken from Novovoronezh unit 3 and 4 reactor pressure vessels

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 185, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 309-317

  Korolev, Yu N ^a   Kryukov, A M ^a   Nikolaev, Yu A ^a   Platonov, P A ^a   Shtrombakh, Ya I ^a   Langer, R ^b   Leitz, C ^b   Reig, C Y ^c  

^a KURCHATOV INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; BRITTLENESS; DUCTILITY; EMBRITTLEMENT; IMPACT TESTING; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; WELDS;

DUCTILE-TO-BRITTLE TRANSITION TEMPERATURE (DBTT); REACTOR PRESSURE VESSELS (RPV);

CONTAINMENT VESSELS;

EID: 0032180631     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-5493(98)00226-X     Document Type: Article

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