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M. H. Hassan, J. P. Blanchard, G. L. Kulcinski
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 3 | May 1992 | Pages 1927-1933
Material and Tritium | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A30001
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Radiation damage will be a major key point in the design of the many duplex components in fusion reactors. There is a substantial amount of available data showing that stress plays a major role in die onset, and possibly the rate, of void growth in austenitic stainless steels. There is also a strong support for models which predict a coupling of swelling and creep through the stress environment A parametric study for the stress-enhanced swelling and its connection to creep is conducted for a typical fusion power demonstration reactor.