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DOE releases $56.7M in second round of Palisades loan funding
Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced this week the release of the second part of Holtec’s loan disbursement for the Palisades nuclear plant restart plans in Michigan.
Chaoliang Xu, Xiangbing Liu, Yuanfei Li, Wangjie Qian, Wenqing Jia, Qiwei Quan, Jian Yin
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 196 | Number 10 | October 2022 | Pages 1247-1254
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2022.2076484
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In order to investigate the correlation between irradiation-assisted stress corrosion cracking (IASCC) susceptibility and the magnetic properties of austenitic stainless steel after ion irradiation, the magnetic properties and phase transformation were studied using a vibrating sample magnetometer and synchrotron radiation grazing incidence X-ray diffraction (GIXRD) on an irradiated specimen up to 25 displacements per atom. GIXRD indicated that the body-centered-cubic (BCC) phase was introduced in austenitic stainless steel by ion irradiation. Then, magnetic hysteresis loop analysis was conducted to give a quantitative analysis on the BCC magnetic phase under different irradiation damage and annealing temperature conditions. Based on the fact that postirradiation annealing will eliminate IASCC susceptibility at 550°C for 1 h, a correlation between IASCC susceptibility and magnetic properties was discussed, and a corresponding IASCC evaluation method was developed.