
Structural Alloys for Nuclear Energy Applications
Description
Key Features
- Focuses on in-service irradiation, thermal, mechanical, and chemical performance capabilities.
- Covers the use of steels and other structural alloys in current fission technology, leading edge Generation-IV fission reactors, and future fusion power reactors.
- Provides a critical and comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art experimental knowledge base of reactor materials, for applications ranging from engineering safety and lifetime assessments to supporting the development of advanced computational models.
Readership
Nuclear materials researchers at research laboratories, academic institutions, and nuclear waste management and fuel reprocessing organizations
Table of Contents
1. Overview of Structural Materials in Water-Cooled Fission Reactors
2. Overview of Reactor Systems and Operational Environments for Structural Materials in Gen-IV Fission Reactors
3. Overview of Reactor Systems and Operational Environments for Structural Materials in Fusion Reactors
4. Research Tools: Microstructure, Mechanical Properties, and Computational Thermodynamics
5. Radiation and Thermomechanical Degradation Effects in Reactor Structural Alloys
6. Corrosion Issues in Current and Next-Generation Nuclear Reactors
7. Zirconium Alloys for LWR Fuel Cladding and Core Internals
8. Austenitic Stainless Steels
9. Ni-Based Alloys for Reactor Internals and Steam Generator Applications
10. Low-Alloy Steels
11. Ferritic and Tempered Martensitic Steels
12. Nano-Oxide Dispersion-Strengthened Steels
13. Refractory Alloys: Vanadium, Niobium, Molybdenum, Tungsten
Product details
- No. of pages: 673
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2019
- Published: August 15, 2019
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780123970466
- eBook ISBN: 9780123973498
About the Editors
Robert Odette
Affiliations and Expertise
Steven Zinkle
Affiliations and Expertise
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