Contribution to the study of the pseudobinary Zr1Nb-Oxygen phase diagram by local oxygen measurements of Zr1Nb fuel cladding after high temperature oxidation

Journal of Nuclear Materials

Volumn 420, Issue 1-3, 2012, Pages 314-319

  Negyesi M ^a,b   Burda, J ^c   Kloucek V ^d   Lorincik J ^e,f   Sopousek J ^g   Kabatova J ^b   Novotny L ^b   Linhart, S ^b   Chmela, T ^b   Siegl, J ^a   Vrtilkova V ^b  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b UJP PRAHA as   (Czech Republic)

^c NUCLEAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIPETROL RPA Sro   (Czech Republic)

^e INSTITUTE OF PHOTONICS AND ELECTRONICS   (Czech Republic)

^f J E PURKINJE UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^g Ústav Chemie   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTER HIGH TEMPERATURE; CALPHAD; DIFFUSION MODEL; EFFECT OF HYDROGEN; EXPERIMENTAL METHODS; FUEL CLADDING; MICROHARDNESS MEASUREMENT; OXIDATION BEHAVIORS; OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; OXYGEN MEASUREMENTS; PSEUDO-BINARIES; THERMAL TRANSIENTS;

FUELS; HYDROGEN; OXIDATION; PHASE BEHAVIOR; PHASE DIAGRAMS; TERNARY SYSTEMS; ZIRCONIUM; ZIRCONIUM ALLOYS;

OXYGEN;

EID: 81055136584     PISSN: 00223115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2011.10.022     Document Type: Article

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