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Achievements of the US-France I-NERI program on heat exchanger alloys for HTR

  • Céline Cabet
  • , Richard Wright
  • , Fanny Balbaud-Célérier
  • , Fabien Rouillard
  • , Hélène Burlet
  • , Jean Marie Gentzbittel
  • , Pierre Lamagnere
  • , Sophie Dubiez-Legoff
  • , Martine Blat

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Abstract

As part of the US Department of Energy bilateral I-NERI initiatives, a 3-year collaborative R&D program has been completed on high temperature nickel base alloys for heat exchangers (IHX) of Generation IV high temperature gas-cooled reactors, named HTR. INL for the US and CEA for France were the leading organizations. The scope was to gain data on the mechanical and corrosion behaviors of Alloy 617 and Alloy 230 in the range of service conditions expected for a high temperature IHX, specifically the temperature, the load and cycling, and the helium impurity content. Main objectives were to compare the performances of both materials and to improve understanding of their properties to help establish the design criteria in terms of: baseline mechanical properties; resistance to creep, fatigue and creep-fatigue; resistance to thermal aging, corrosion and embrittlement. This paper presents the main achievements of that concerted R&D program.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants 2009, ICAPP 2009
PublisherAtomic Energy Society of Japan
Pages2360-2366
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781617386084
StatePublished - 2009
EventInternational Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants 2009, ICAPP 2009 - Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Duration: May 10 2009May 14 2009

Publication series

NameInternational Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants 2009, ICAPP 2009
Volume3

Conference

ConferenceInternational Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants 2009, ICAPP 2009
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityShinjuku, Tokyo
Period05/10/0905/14/09

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