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ICYMI: Counting up INL’s reactors
Over the past two weeks, in the “Trivia Tuesday” and “Throwback Thursday” sections of Nuclear News Daily, we have dug into the story of Idaho National Laboratory’s official list of reactors, past and present, at the site. We are now bringing that exploration to Newswire, compiling the research done for the Daily and extending the conversation further.
H. Sakasegawa, A. Kohyama, Y. Katoh, M. Tamura, Y. Khono, A. Kimura
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 44 | Number 1 | July 2003 | Pages 196-200
Technical Paper | Fusion Energy - Fusion Materials | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A333
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Reduced Activation Ferritic/Martensitic steels (RAFs) are leading candidates for blanket and first wall structures of the D-T fusion reactors. Recently, in order to achieve better efficiency of energy conversion by using RAFs in advanced blanket systems, improvement of high temperature mechanical property of RAFs is desired. In this work, experimental alloys, FETA-series (Fe-Ta-C or N) steels, were prepared to observe precipitation hardening mechanism by MX-type particles at elevated temperatures in detail. According to the results, innovative improvement of creep property can be achieved by applying of precipitation hardening by very fine TaX (X=C, N) particles. With increasing tantalum content, finer dispersion of MX-type particles, dislocation structures and sub-grain structures were observed by TEM (Transmission Electron Microscopy). These fine structures contributed to the improvement of creep property.