Effect of Zirconium Oxide on the Stress-Corrosion Susceptibility of Irradiated Zircaloy Cladding / RF. Mattas, FL. Yaggee, LA. Neimark
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- Zirconium in the Nuclear Industry (1980 : Boston, Massachusetts)
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- Cladding specimens were obtained from two fuel rods irradiated in the Big Rock Point Reactor to a burnup of ~8 gigawatt days per ton. Both claddings had a uniform, thick (~4 ¿̐ưm) zirconium oxide layer on the inner surface. The significant difference between the two rods was the degree of fission-gas release (0.2 versus 14.3 percent). The high-gas-release rod contained a significantly greater amount of fission-product deposits, and, in some areas, breaks in the inner-surface oxide were observed. The cladding speciments, with the fuel removed, were subjected to stress-rupture tests in an iodine environment using internal gas pressurization to evaluate their stress corrosion cracking (SCC) susceptibility. All tests were conducted at an initial iodine concentration of 0.6 mg/cm2 and a temperature of 325¿̐ưC. Specimens from the high-gas-release rod exhibited signifciantly increased susceptibility to iodine SCC, with a threshold stress level of ~200 MPa as compared with ~280 MPa in the specimens from the low-gas-release rod. The results suggest that the inner-surface oxide provides a barrier to iodine penetration. Hence, the thick unbreached oxide on the low-gas-release rod provided greater resistance to iodine SCC than the breached oxide on the high-gas-release rod.
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- Volume 1982, Issue 754 (January 1982)
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