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Precipitation-Hardening Austenitic Steel for Fast Neutron Reactors

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The properties of conventional stainless reactor steels of the Kh16N15M3 type transformed into precipitation-hardening steels with the help of optimum alloying are studied after irradiation by a flux of fast neutrons. The pore characteristics and the total irradiation-induced swelling are determined. The aging steel Kh16N15MT1 is suggested as a radiation-resistant material for fast neutron reactors.

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  1. Institute for the Physics of Metals of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg, Russia

    V. V. Sagaradze, B. N. Goshchitskii, V. L. Arbuzov & Yu. N. Zuev

  2. RF Nuclear Center, All-Russia Research Institute for Engineering Physics, Snezhinsk, Russia

    V. V. Sagaradze, B. N. Goshchitskii, V. L. Arbuzov & Yu. N. Zuev

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Sagaradze, V.V., Goshchitskii, B.N., Arbuzov, V.L. et al. Precipitation-Hardening Austenitic Steel for Fast Neutron Reactors. Metal Science and Heat Treatment 45, 293–299 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1027340620675

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