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Micro-focussed XAFS spectroscopy to study Ni-bearing precipitates in the metal of corroded Zircaloy-2

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The present work concerns an investigation of the local atomic environment of Ni-containing secondary phase precipitates (SPP) present in the metal-part of Zircaloy-2 cladding tubes. An unirradiated Zircaloy-2 and two specimens irradiated in a commercial nuclear power plant are characterized using μ-focussed synchrotron radiation, and by x-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) spectroscopy. The patterns of Ni K-edge XANES and EXAFS of SPP in unirradiated and irradiated cladding are found different. Considering the fact that Ni-bearing SPP in the unirradiated samples are mainly Zintl phase Zr2(Fe, Ni) type, a detailed EXAFS analysis of near-neighbor Ni atoms has been made. The result of a curve fit for the first two shells shows that about 2 Ni(Fe) and 8 Zr atoms are coordinated at 2.68 and 2.77 Å, respectively, around a central Ni atom in the SPP. XANES data analysis provides total electronic density of states at the Fermi level of unirradiated Zr2(Fe, Ni). At the Ni K-edge EXAFS spectra of irradiated SPP, however, only a single scattering peak is observed demonstrating the structural disorder introduced by the neutron irradiation. The coordination number of the Ni neighboring shells is reduced markedly due to the formation of point and extended defects in the damaged SPP lattice. Dissolution of Ni from the SPP is also evident from the data. The results of this study provide a further basis for the description of both crystallographic and electronic structures of intermetallic second-phase precipitates found in Zr-based alloys.

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Kuri, G., Degueldre, C., Bertsch, J. et al. Micro-focussed XAFS spectroscopy to study Ni-bearing precipitates in the metal of corroded Zircaloy-2. Appl. Phys. A 98, 625–633 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-009-5456-z

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