193
Views
32
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

SANS response of VVER440-type weld material after neutron irradiation, post-irradiation annealing and reirradiation

, , , , &
Pages 1855-1870 | Received 10 Mar 2006, Accepted 01 Nov 2006, Published online: 12 Mar 2007

Keep up to date with the latest research on this topic with citation updates for this article.

Read on this site (1)

F. Bergner, A. Ulbricht & H.-W. Viehrig. (2009) Acceleration of irradiation hardening of low-copper reactor pressure vessel steel observed by means of SANS and tensile testing. Philosophical Magazine Letters 89:12, pages 795-805.
Read now

Articles from other publishers (31)

Biqian Li, Rui Ma, Shuyang Qin & Xinfang Zhang. (2023) Regulating the dislocation-nanocluster interactions by electrical pulses to alleviate material hardening. Materials Science and Engineering: A 874, pages 145064.
Crossref
A. Ulbricht, J. Dykas, P. Chekhonin, E. Altstadt & F. Bergner. (2023) Small-angle neutron scattering study of neutron-irradiated and post-irradiation annealed VVER-1000 reactor pressure vessel weld material. Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering 2.
Crossref
E. Altstadt, F. Bergner & M. Houska. (2021) Use of the small punch test for the estimation of ductile-to-brittle transition temperature shift of irradiated steels. Nuclear Materials and Energy 26, pages 100918.
Crossref
M.J. Konstantinović, A. Ulbricht, T. Brodziansky, N. Castin & L. Malerba. (2020) Vacancy-solute clustering in Fe–Cr alloys after neutron irradiation. Journal of Nuclear Materials 540, pages 152341.
Crossref
Xin Ba, Mengcheng Zhou, Xinfang Zhang & Hui Wang. (2020) Manipulating Dislocations Using Electric Field to Repair Embrittlement Damage. ISIJ International 60:8, pages 1803-1809.
Crossref
Shipeng Shu, Peter B. Wells, G. Robert Odette & Dane Morgan. (2019) A kinetic lattice Monte Carlo study of post-irradiation annealing of model reactor pressure vessel steels. Journal of Nuclear Materials 524, pages 312-322.
Crossref
A. Wagner, F. Bergner, R. Chaouadi, H. Hein, M. Hernández-Mayoral, M. Serrano, A. Ulbricht & E. Altstadt. (2016) Effect of neutron flux on the characteristics of irradiation-induced nanofeatures and hardening in pressure vessel steels. Acta Materialia 104, pages 131-142.
Crossref
F. Bergner, F. Gillemot, M. Hernández-Mayoral, M. Serrano, G. Török, A. Ulbricht & E. Altstadt. (2015) Contributions of Cu-rich clusters, dislocation loops and nanovoids to the irradiation-induced hardening of Cu-bearing low-Ni reactor pressure vessel steels. Journal of Nuclear Materials 461, pages 37-44.
Crossref
J. Jiang, Y.C. Wu, X.B. Liu, R.S. Wang, Y. Nagai, K. Inoue, Y. Shimizu & T. Toyama. (2015) Microstructural evolution of RPV steels under proton and ion irradiation studied by positron annihilation spectroscopy. Journal of Nuclear Materials 458, pages 326-334.
Crossref
F. Bergner, A. Ulbricht, P. Lindner, U. Keiderling & L. Malerba. (2014) Post-irradiation annealing behavior of neutron-irradiated FeCu, FeMnNi and FeMnNiCu model alloys investigated by means of small-angle neutron scattering. Journal of Nuclear Materials 454:1-3, pages 22-27.
Crossref
T. Toyama, A. Kuramoto, Y. Nagai, K. Inoue, Y. Nozawa, Y. Shimizu, Y. Matsukawa, M. Hasegawa & M. Valo. (2014) Effects of post-irradiation annealing and re-irradiation on microstructure in surveillance test specimens of the Loviisa-1 reactor studied by atom probe tomography and positron annihilation. Journal of Nuclear Materials 449:1-3, pages 207-212.
Crossref
Wen-xiong Song & Shi-jin Zhao. (2014) Spin polarization gives rise to Cu precipitation in Fe-matrix. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 16:16, pages 7222.
Crossref
F. Bergner, C. Pareige, V. Kuksenko, L. Malerba, P. Pareige, A. Ulbricht & A. Wagner. (2013) Critical assessment of Cr-rich precipitates in neutron-irradiated Fe–12at%Cr: Comparison of SANS and APT. Journal of Nuclear Materials 442:1-3, pages 463-469.
Crossref
A. Wagner, F. Bergner, A. Ulbricht & C.D. Dewhurst. (2013) Small-angle neutron scattering of low-Cu RPV steels neutron-irradiated at 255°C and post-irradiation annealed at 290°C. Journal of Nuclear Materials 441:1-3, pages 487-492.
Crossref
A. Kuramoto, T. Toyama, Y. Nagai, K. Inoue, Y. Nozawa, M. Hasegawa & M. Valo. (2013) Microstructural changes in a Russian-type reactor weld material after neutron irradiation, post-irradiation annealing and re-irradiation studied by atom probe tomography and positron annihilation spectroscopy. Acta Materialia 61:14, pages 5236-5246.
Crossref
M. Posselt. (2013) Importance of configurational contributions to the free energy of nanoclusters. AIP Advances 3:7.
Crossref
A. Ballesteros & E. Altstadt. (2013) RPV Long Term Operation: Open Issues. Strength of Materials 45:4, pages 392-396.
Crossref
Andreas Wagner, Wolfgang Anwand, Maik Butterling, Thomas E. Cowan, Fine Fiedler, Mathias Kempe & Reinhard Krause-Rehberg. (2012) Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy Using Positrons from Bremsstrahlung Production. Defect and Diffusion Forum 331, pages 41-52.
Crossref
T. Toyama, Z. Tang, K. Inoue, T. Chiba, T. Ohkubo, K. Hono, Y. Nagai & M. Hasegawa. (2012) Size estimation of embedded Cu nanoprecipitates in Fe by using affinitively trapped positrons. Physical Review B 86:10.
Crossref
Mina Talati, Matthias Posselt, Giovanni Bonny, Ahmed Al-Motasem & Frank Bergner. (2012) Vibrational contribution to the thermodynamics of nanosized precipitates: vacancy–copper clusters in bcc-Fe. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 24:22, pages 225402.
Crossref
G. V. Lysova & G. A. Birzhevoy. (2012) Kinetics of the radiation-induced hardening of EP-823 steel after Ni++ ion irradiation, annealing, and re-irradiation. Journal of Surface Investigation. X-ray, Synchrotron and Neutron Techniques 6:2, pages 326-329.
Crossref
J.M. Hyde, R.M. Boothby, C.A. English, P. Styman, H. Thompson, G.D.W. Smith, K. Wilford & TJ. Williams. 2012. Supplemental Proceedings. Supplemental Proceedings 487 502 .
S.S. Babu. 2012. Phase Transformations in Steels. Phase Transformations in Steels 588 633 .
A. Ulbricht, E. Altstadt, F. Bergner, H.-W. Viehrig & U. Keiderling. (2011) Small-angle neutron scattering investigation of as-irradiated, annealed and reirradiated reactor pressure vessel weld material of decommissioned reactor. Journal of Nuclear Materials 416:1-2, pages 111-116.
Crossref
A.T. Al-Motasem, M. Posselt, F. Bergner & U. Birkenheuer. (2011) Structure, energetics and thermodynamics of copper–vacancy clusters in bcc-Fe: An atomistic study. Journal of Nuclear Materials 414:2, pages 161-168.
Crossref
Alexis Deschamps & Frédéric De Geuser. (2011) On the validity of simple precipitate size measurements by small-angle scattering in metallic systems. Journal of Applied Crystallography 44:2, pages 343-352.
Crossref
K. Inoue, Y. Nagai, Z. Tang, T. Toyama, Y. Hosoda, A. Tsuto & M. Hasegawa. (2011) Time evolution of positron affinity trapping at embedded nanoparticles by age-momentum correlation. Physical Review B 83:11.
Crossref
E. Meslin, M. Lambrecht, M. Hernández-Mayoral, F. Bergner, L. Malerba, P. Pareige, B. Radiguet, A. Barbu, D. Gómez-Briceño, A. Ulbricht & A. Almazouzi. (2010) Characterization of neutron-irradiated ferritic model alloys and a RPV steel from combined APT, SANS, TEM and PAS analyses. Journal of Nuclear Materials 406:1, pages 73-83.
Crossref
F. Bergner, M. Lambrecht, A. Ulbricht & A. Almazouzi. (2010) Comparative small-angle neutron scattering study of neutron-irradiated Fe, Fe-based alloys and a pressure vessel steel. Journal of Nuclear Materials 399:2-3, pages 129-136.
Crossref
Frank Bergner, Uwe Birkenheuer, Andreas Ulbricht & Frank-Peter Weiss. (2008) Flux dependence of cluster formation in neutron irradiated weld material - small-angle neutron scattering experiments and rate theory simulation. Flux dependence of cluster formation in neutron irradiated weld material - small-angle neutron scattering experiments and rate theory simulation.
F. Bergner, A. Ulbricht, A. Gokhman & D. Erak. (2008) Nature of defect clusters in neutron-irradiated iron-based alloys deduced from small-angle neutron scattering. Journal of Nuclear Materials 373:1-3, pages 199-205.
Crossref

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.