摘要:
Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a tube and a sheet of niobium-containing zirconium alloys for the high burn-up nuclear fuel. The method comprises melting Nb-added zirconium alloy to ingot; forging the ingot at β phase range; β-quenching the forged ingot after solution heat-treatment at 1015-1075 °C; hot-working the quenched ingot at 600-650 °C; cold-working the hot-worked ingot in three to five passes, with intermediate vacuum annealing; and final vacuum annealing the cold-worked ingot at 440-600 °C, wherein temperatures of intermediate vacuum annealing and final vacuum annealing after β-quenching are changed so as to attain the condition under which precipitates in the alloy matrix are limited to an average diameter of 80 nm or smaller and the accumulated annealing parameter (Σ A) is limited to 1.0 × 10 -18 hr or lower, thereby yielding a tube and a sheet of Nb-containing zirconium alloys with excellent corrosion resistance and mechanical properties, capable of stably maintaining nuclear fuel in operation conditions of high temperature/high pressure of high burn-up reactor cores. Such Nb-added zirconium alloys are useful as nuclear fuel cladding tubes, grids and structures of the cores in the light water reactors and heavy water reactors.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a zirconium alloy having excellent corrosion resistance and mechanical properties and a method for preparing a nuclear fuel cladding tube by zirconium alloy. More particulary, the present invention is directed to a zirconium alloy comprising Zr-aNb-bSn-cFe-dCr-eCu (a=0.05-0.4 wt%, b=0.3-0.7 wt%, c=0.1-0.4 wt%, d=0-0.2 wt% and e=0.01-0.2 wt%, provided that Nb+Sn=0.35-1.0 wt%), and to a method for preparing a zirconium alloy nuclear fuel cladding tube, comprising melting a metal mixture comprising of the zirconium and alloying elements to obtain ingot, forging the ingot at β phase range, β-quenching the forged ingot at 1015-1075 °c, hot-working the quenched ingot at 600-650 °C, cold-working the hot-worked ingot in three to five passes, with intermediate vacuum annealing and final vacuum annealing the worked ingot at 460-540 °C, which can be applied to the core components in a light water and a heavy water atomic reactor type nuclear power plant.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing zirconium-based alloys containing niobium with superior corrosion resistance for use in nuclear fuel rod claddings. The method of this invention comprises melting of the alloy, β-forging, β-quenching, hot-working, vacuum annealing, cold-working, intermediate annealing and final annealing, whereby the niobium concentration in the α-Zr matrix decreases from the supersaturation state to the equilibrium state to improve the corrosion resistance of the alloy. Such zirconium-based alloys containing niobium are usefully applied to nuclear fuel rod cladding of the cores in light water reactors and heavy water reactors.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a zirconium alloy composition having excellent corrosion resistance for nuclear applications and a method of preparing the same. The zirconium alloy composition having excellent corrosion resistance for nuclear applications includes 1.3~2.0 wt% of niobium, 0.05~0.18 wt% of iron, 0.008~0.012 wt% of silicon, 0.008~0.012 wt% of carbon, and 0.1~0.16 wt% of oxygen, with the balance being zirconium, or includes 2.8~3.5 wt% of niobium, 0.2~0.7 wt% of at least one of iron and copper, 0.008~0.012 wt% of silicon, 0.008~0.012 wt% of carbon, and 0.1~0.16 wt% of oxygen, with the balance being zirconium. The present invention further relates to a method of preparing the zirconium alloy composition as described above, as well as high burn-up nuclear fuel cladding tubes, nuclear fuel assembly support grids and structural components of nuclear power plants made therefrom. The invention further relates to a method of preparing a zirconium alloy composition as described above, as well as high burn-up nuclear fuel cladding tubes, nuclear fuel assembly support grids and structural components of nuclear power plants made therefrom.