Effects of hydrogen pickup and second-phase particle dissolution on the in-reactor corrosion performance of BWR claddings

ASTM Special Technical Publication

Volumn , Issue 1423, 2002, Pages 96-118

  Tagtstrom P ^a   Limback M ^a   Dahlback M ^a   Andersson, T ^b   Pettersson, H ^c  

^a Westinghouse Atom AB   (Sweden)

^b SANDVIK MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c RINGHALS AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Corrosion; Hydriding; Irradiation induced dissolution; Second phase particle; Zircaloy

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); CORROSION; DISSOLUTION; HYDROGEN; IRRADIATION; OXIDATION; OXIDES; ZIRCONIUM ALLOYS;

HYBRIDING; IRRADIATION-INDUCED DISSOLUTION; SECOND-PHASE PARTICLES (SPP); ZIRCALOY;

BOILING WATER REACTORS;

EID: 8844237636     PISSN: 00660558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1520/stp11385s     Document Type: Conference Paper

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