Zirconium alloy heat treatment process and product
US4238251A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Nov 18, 1977 |
| Grant date | Dec 9, 1980 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 18, 1997 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S376/90
- WIPO fieldMaterials, metallurgy
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
Zirconium-base alloy channels and fuel cladding tubes having unique resistance to accelerated pustular corrosion in the boiling water reactor environment are produced by a heat treatment causing segregation of intermetallic particulate precipitate phase in two dimensional arrays preferably located along grain boundaries and subgrain boundaries throughout the alloy body.
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