From Bytes to Ingots: Expedient Design of Structural Materials for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems
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From Bytes to Ingots: Expedient Design of Structural Materials for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems Steve Zinkle, Ron Klueh, Phil Maziasz, Jeremy Busby, David Hoelzer, John Vitek, Roger Stoller and Yuri Osetsky © 2008 Materials Research Society Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
Materials Research Society Fall Meeting Symposium T: Materials innovations for next generation nuclear energy Boston, MA, November 26-30, 2007 OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY U. S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Outline • Brief history of nuclear power • Effects of neutron bombardment on structural materials − “Five scourges” of radiation
• Prospects development of high-performance © 2008for Materials Research Society radiation-resistant materials − Crucial role of nanoscale architectures
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The Launching of Nuclear Energy Largely Preceded the Development of Modern Materials Science
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Graphite Shippingport reactor EBR-I
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• Radiation hardening and embrittlement (0.1 dpa)
Engineering Stress, MPa
Radiation Damage can Produce Large Changes in Structural Materials USJF82Hss2
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• Phase instabilities from radiation-induced precipitation (0.3-0.6 TM, >10 dpa)
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• Volumetric swelling from void formation (0.3-0.6 TM, >10 dpa) 100 nm
• High temperature He embrittlement (>0.5 TM, >10 dpa) after S.J. Zinkle, Phys. Plasmas 12 (2005) 058101
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Advanced nuclear energy systems impose harsh radiation damage conditions on structural materials • 1 displacement per atom (dpa) corresponds to stable displacement from their lattice site of all atoms in the material during irradiation near absolute zero (no thermally-activated point defect diffusion) − Initial number of atoms knocked off their lattice site during fast reactor neutron irradiation is ~100 times the dpa value • Most of these originally displaced atoms hop onto another lattice site during “thermal spike” phase of the displacement cascade (~1 ps)
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• Requirement for structural materials in advanced nuclear energy systems (~100 dpa exposure): − ~99.95% of “stable” displacement damage must recombine • ~99.9995% of initially dislodged atoms must recombine
• Two general strategies for radiation resistance can be en
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