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Materials and water chemistry for supercritical water-cooled reactors /

Materials and Water Chemistry for Supercritical Water-cooled Reactors is unique in that it brings together materials and water chemistry, their interrelationship, the historical perspective and their application to SCWR conceptual design. Written by world's leading experts, all active in the ar...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Guzonas, David (Editor), Novotny, Radek (Editor), Pentilla, S. (Editor), Toivonen, Aki (Editor), Zheng, Wenyue (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Duxford, United Kingdom : Woodhead Publishing, 2018.
Series:Woodhead Publishing in energy.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Early efforts
  • 1.2. Recent developments
  • 1.3. Supercritical water-cooled reactor materials requirements
  • 1.4. Summary
  • References
  • 2. Experimental methodologies
  • 2.1. Test facilities for corrosion and environmentally assisted cracking studies
  • 2.2. Test specimens
  • 2.3. Corrosion rate measurements
  • 2.4. Measurements of thermodynamic properties
  • 2.5. Stress corrosion cracking
  • 2.6. Testing under irradiated conditions
  • References
  • 3. Radiation effects and mechanical properties
  • 3.1. Primary radiation damage
  • 3.2. Effects on mechanical properties
  • 3.3. Effects on microchemistry: radiation-induced segregation
  • 3.4. Creep
  • 3.5. Microstructural instability
  • 3.6. Modelling
  • References
  • 4. Water chemistry
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Feedwater chemistry
  • 4.3. Activity transport
  • 4.4. Water radiolysis
  • 4.5. Chemistry control in a supercritical water-cooled reactor
  • 4.6. Molecular dynamics simulations
  • References
  • 5. Corrosion
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. Alloy composition
  • 5.3. Effects of key parameters
  • 5.4. Oxide morphology
  • 5.5. Oxide growth kinetics
  • 5.6. Mechanisms and modelling
  • References
  • 6. Environmentally assisted cracking
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. Effects of key variables
  • 6.3. Mechanisms and modelling
  • References.