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Nuclear Technology | Volume 55 | Number 2 | November 1981 | Pages 280-288
Technical Paper | Materials | doi.org/10.13182/NT55-288
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The development work to design, manufacture, and evaluate pre-stressed double-wall Cr—1 Mo steel tubing for commercial fast breeder reactor steam generator application is discussed. The Westinghouse plan for qualifying tubing vendors to produce this tubing is described. The results achieved to date show that a long length pre-stressed double-wall tube is both feasible and commercially available. The evaluation included structural analysis and experimental measurement of the pre-stress within tubes, as well as dimensional, metallurgical, and interface wear tests of tube samples produced. This work is summarized and found to meet the steam generator design requirements.