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Strong performances across the board
Craig Piercycpiercy@ans.org
Another year, another stellar performance by America’s nuclear plants. We’ve come to expect high capacity factors, and it’s a credit to the men and women of the profession. They’ve made routine something that was unimaginable not so long ago.
The decadal challenge for the nuclear enterprise now is to maintain this high level of operational excellence for the current fleet, while at the same time ushering in a new generation of technologies at scale. It will be a big job—but one that seems more and more likely with each passing day.
Glen R. Edwards, Kent A. Jones, Steven F. Halvorson
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 2 | September 1986 | Pages 243-252
Technical Paper | Blanket Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24976
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Recent inertial confinement fusion reactor designs utilize liquid 17Li-83Pb blankets to absorb the neutron and thermal fluxes. One of the crucial concerns of these designs is the compatibility of structural alloys with this lithium-lead alloy, especially because of this liquid's possible propensity for embrittling materials. Current candidate pressure vessel steels for liquid lithium or lithium-lead containment are the Cr-Mo steels such as HT-9 (12 Cr-1 Mo), 2.25 Cr-1 Mo, and niobium-stabilized 2.25 Cr-1 Mo. This investigation was therefore aimed at characterizing the lithium-lead embrittlement susceptibility of the weldments of these steels subjected to a 17Li-83Pb liquid. Results of these embrittlement studies have shown that as-welded heat-affected zones of low phosphorus and sulfur 2.25 Cr-1 Mo, niobium-stabilized 2.25 Cr-1 Mo, and HT-9 steels all exhibit liquid-metal-induced embrittlement susceptibility when subjected to a 17Li-83Pb liquid. The embrittlement, however, was found to be very dependent on post-weld heat treatment. Normally extensive post-weld heat treatments greatly ameliorate the 17Li-83Pb embrittlement, rendering these steels acceptable for 17Li-83Pb containment.