Influence of oxide layer morphology on hydrogen concentration in tin and niobium containing zirconium alloys after high temperature steam oxidation

Journal of Nuclear Materials

Volumn 385, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 339-345

  Große, Mirco ^a   Lehmann, Eberhard ^b   Steinbrück, Martin ^a   Kühne, Guido ^b   Stuckert, Juri ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACKS; HYDROGEN; MECHANICAL STABILITY; NIOBIUM; NIOBIUM ALLOYS; NUCLEAR FUEL ELEMENTS; OXIDATION; PHASE INTERFACES; PHASE TRANSITIONS; TERNARY ALLOYS; THERMAL EFFECTS; TIN; TIN ALLOYS; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS; ZIRCONIA; ZIRCONIUM; ZIRCONIUM ALLOYS;

AFTER HIGH TEMPERATURES; CONCENTRATION OF; FORMING PHASE; FUEL RODS; HYDROGEN CONCENTRATIONS; HYDROGEN PARTIAL PRESSURES; HYDROGEN UPTAKES; LOCAL REGIONS; MONOCLINIC PHASE TRANSITIONS; NUCLEAR FUEL RODS; OXIDATION-KINETICS; OXIDE LAYERS; OXIDE/METAL INTERFACES; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; STEAM OXIDATIONS; ZR-NB ALLOYS;

HYDROGEN PRODUCTION;

EID: 61749094227     PISSN: 00223115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2008.12.021     Document Type: Article

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