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Ex-situ and in-situ Neutron Radiography Investigations of the Hydrogen Uptake of Nuclear Fuel Cladding Materials During Steam Oxidation at 1000°C and Above

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Mirco Grosse ,
Marius van den Berg ,
Eberhard Helmar Lehmann  and
Burkhard Schillinger
Mirco Grosse
Affiliation:
Mirco.Grosse@KIT.edu, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Materials Research, Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, D-76344, Germany
Marius van den Berg
Affiliation:
mariusvdberg@gmail.com, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Materials Research, Karlsruhe, Germany
Eberhard Helmar Lehmann
Affiliation:
eberhard.lehmann@psi.ch, Paul Scherrer Institute, Spallation Neutron Source, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
Burkhard Schillinger
Affiliation:
Burkhard.Schillinger@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE, TU Munich, FRM-2, Garching, Germany
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Abstract

Neutron radiography is a powerful tool for the investigation of the hydrogen uptake of zirconium alloys. It is fast, fully quantitative, non-destructive and provides a spatial resolution of 30 μm. The non-destructive character of neutron radiography provides the possibility of in-situ investigations. The paper describes the calibration of the method and delivers results of ex-situ measurements of the hydrogen concentration distribution after steam oxidation, as well as in-situ experiments of hydrogen diffusion in β-Zr and in-situ investigations of the hydrogen uptake during steam oxidation.

Keywords

neutron scatteringhydrogenationZr
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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1262: Symposium V/W – In-Situ and operando Probing of Energy Materials at Multiscale Down to Single Atomic Couumn-The Powerof X-Rays, Neutons and Electrons Microscopy , 2010 , 1262-W03-09
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2010

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