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Temperature Shift for Nanocluster Evolution in Ion-Irradiated Ferritic-Martensitic Alloys

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Ferritic-martensitic (F/M) alloys are leading candidate materials for advanced reactors, but are known to experience nucleation and growth of solute nanoclusters, causing irradiation-induced embrittlement. In this study, two simulation models are applied to describe Si-Mn-Ni-rich nanocluster irradiation evolution, with each model predicting a negative temperature shift for Fe2+ ions to emulate nanocluster morphologies resulting from neutron irradiation to 3 dpa at 500°C. Using this prescribed shift, Fe2+ ion irradiation was conducted on three F/M alloys (T91, HCM12A, and HT9) to 3 dpa at 370°C. Atom probe tomography characterization shows that the morphologies for Si-Mn-Ni-rich and Cu-rich nanoclusters following Fe2+ irradiation at 370°C are comparable to the nanocluster morphologies after neutron irradiation at 500°C in all three F/M alloys, confirming the predicted shift. More precise temperature shifts for solute nanocluster irradiation evolution are likely dependent on the clustering species in question and their respective diffusion rates.

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Acknowledgements

The authors acknowledge and thank J. Burns, M. Dubey, and Y. Wu in the Microscopy and Characterization Suite at CAES for assistance with microscopy. The authors also acknowledge G. Was, O. Toader, and the staff in the Michigan Ion Beam Laboratory for execution of the Fe2+ ion irradiation. This research was sponsored in part by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Grant NRC-HG-84-15-G-0025, and is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy under DOE Idaho Operations Office Contract DE-AC07-051D14517 as part of the Nuclear Science User Facilities RTE experiments 13-419, 16-625, 16-720, 18-1210, 18-1400, and 19-1765.

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Adisa, S.B., Swenson, M.J. Temperature Shift for Nanocluster Evolution in Ion-Irradiated Ferritic-Martensitic Alloys. JOM 74, 4069–4080 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-022-05443-5

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