Sheathing tube for a nuclear fuel rod

Details Sheathing tube for a nuclear fuel rod Sheathing tube for a nuclear fuel rod

1996-10-11

1998-04-07

Sheehan, John

Metal treatment

Process of modifying or maintaining internal physical...

Heating or cooling of solid metal

C22C 118

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057359784

ABSTRACT:
A method of manufacturing a tube suitable for use as sheath of a nuclear fuel rod zirconium based alloy. The alloy contains 0.18% to 0.25% iron, 0.07% to 0.13% chromium, 0.35% to 1.70% tin, all percentages by weight, 900 ppm to 2300 ppm oxygen, 80 ppm to 200 ppm carbon, and 50 ppm to 120 ppm silicon. A drawn blank is subjected to successive passes of metallurgical treatment and of heat treatment. The Fe/Cr ratio by weight in the alloy lies in the range 1.6 to 3. The heat treatment includes, after at least one rolling pass, a plurality of annealing passes under an inert atmosphere such that the sum .SIGMA.A is greater than 1.5.10.sup.-17, and advantageously in the range 2.10.sup.-17 to 2.10.sup.-16. The first rolling pass is performed on the tube coming from the drawing operation, without an intermediate annealing. .SIGMA.A designates the sum of the products of the times t (in hours) multiplied by the exponential of --Q/RT, where T is the temperature in K.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4584030 (1986-04-01), McDonald et al.

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