... initiation than the other tube, which may be attributed to the differences in their microstructure and texture. There is a reasonable agreement between the test results and the predictions from the EPZ model. 07 11 2007 01 09 2008 01 07 2009 fission reactor materials fission reactor...

... reactor materials fission reactor monitoring fission reactor operation Evaluations of nuclear power plant safety have assumed that passive components such as pressure vessels and piping systems have very low failure probabilities, such that failures of these components make only negligible...

.... Editor: S. Y. Zamrik. 01 January 2000 23 October 2000 power plants fission reactor safety pressure vessels fatigue testing fracture mechanics fission reactor operation Cruciform beam specimens 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 developed at ORNL introduce a prototypic, far-field, out...

... cracks crack detection niobium alloys zirconium alloys pressure vessels fission reactor materials pipe flow fission reactor operation deuterium uranium The core of a CANDU (CANada Deuterium Uranium) pressurized heavy water reactor consists of approximately 400 horizontal Zr-2.5Nb alloy...