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PWR Corrosion Control in the Nuclear Industry
As many Pressurized Water Reactors (PWRs) approach or exceed 40 years of operation, maintaining asset integrity under aging infrastructure, tight outage schedules, and strict ALARA (As Low As Reasonably Achievable) mandates is a real challenge.
Kazunori Morishita, Ryuichiro Sugano, Brian D. Wirth
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 44 | Number 2 | September 2003 | Pages 441-445
Technical Paper | Fusion Energy - Fusion Materials | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A374
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The recent progress on our multiscale modeling to understand radiation damage processes in materials during irradiation is reviewed. The energies of He-V cluster formation in Fe were evaluated using a molecular dynamics (MD) simulation technique that employed interatomic potentials partially developed by first-principle (FP) calculations. Using the calculated energies, the longer timescale behavior of He-V clusters in Fe was investigated using a kinetic Monte-Carlo (KMC) simulation technique. The FP-MD-KMC scheme provided us significant information on the thermal stability of a He-V cluster in Fe as a function of the helium-to-vacancy ratio of the cluster.