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Making vanadium-based radiation-resistant alloys for fast-neutron reactor pin sheaths

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The working conditions are considered for pin sheath materials for future fast-neutron reactors, as well as the scope for using various classes of material for the sheaths. Alloys of vanadium with titanium and chromium are found to have advantages for these conditions.

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  1. A. A. Bochvar High-Technology Scientific-Research Institute of Inorganic Materials (VNIINM), Moscow, Russia

    S. N. Votinov & V. P. Kolotushkin

  2. State Technological University “Moscow Institute for Steel and Alloys”, Moscow, Russia

    S. A. Nikulin & V. Yu. Turilina

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Translated from Metallovedenie i Termicheskaya Obrabotka Metallov, No. 5, pp. 40–47, May, 2009.

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Votinov, S.N., Kolotushkin, V.P., Nikulin, S.A. et al. Making vanadium-based radiation-resistant alloys for fast-neutron reactor pin sheaths. Met Sci Heat Treat 51, 238 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11041-009-9149-1

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