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Billone, M. C.

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Ductility of Zircaloy-4 Sibling Pin Cladding

This report summarizes the FY2022-23 work performed by Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) on sibling pins that are part of the High Burnup (HBU) Spent Fuel Data Project. The project is funded by the US Department of Energy’s Spent Fuel & Waste Science and Technology (SFWST) Office, which is part of the Office of Nuclear Energy’s Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition Office.

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Effects of Electron Irradiation on Candidate Materials for Target Window in Accelerator-Driven Mo-99 Production

Room-temperature (RT) axial tensile tests were conducted in 2018 and 2021 with flat, sub-sized, dog-boned samples of non-irradiated and irradiated Inconel 718 and irradiated beryllium (Be). The sample gauge length was 7.62 mm. Tensile properties of interest are the engineering yield stress (YS), ultimate tensile stress (UTS), uniform elongation (UE) and total elongation (TE). The electron dose of the 2021 samples was ≈2 times the dose of samples tested in 2018. Relative dose rates of 0, 1 (2018), and 2 (2021) are assigned to these samples. The 2021 electron-irradiated Be samples were brittle with a low failure stress of 338±64 MPa based on two samples. The failures occurred in the gauge section. The 2018 results for electron-irradiated Be indicated a slight decrease in ductility and strength for the one electron-irradiated sample that failed in the gauge section.

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