Composition and magnetic character of nanometre-size Cu precipitates in reactor pressure vessel steels: Implications for nuclear power plant lifetime extension

Philosophical Magazine Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 609-615

  Asoka Kumar, P ^a   Wirth, B D ^a   Sterne, P A ^a   Howell, R H ^a   Odette, G R ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION EFFECTS; EMBRITTLEMENT; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; POSITRONS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRESSURE VESSELS; STEEL; X RAY SCATTERING;

MAGNETIC HOST; MICROCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION; REACTOR PRESSURE VESSEL;

COPPER;

EID: 0036856322     PISSN: 09500839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0950083021000019958     Document Type: Article

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