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The irradiation-induced damage of zirconium alloys subjected to neutron irradiation up to dose levels of ~50 dpa was investigated. Specimens of unalloyed zirconium, Zr-1%Nb, Zr-2.5%Nb and Zr-1%Nb-1.3%Sn-0.4%Fe were irradiated in the BOR-60 reactor over the temperature range 320-420°C. The dose dependence of the irradiation growth strain increased sharply in zirconium and Zr-Nb irradiated at ~350°C at doses above ~10 dpa. In the case of Zr-1%Nb-1.3%Sn-0.4%Fe, it increased at doses of ~37 dpa. Upon increasing the irradiation temperature to 420°C, a sharp accelerated irradiation growth of the Zr-1%Nb alloy began shifting up to about 30 dpa. For the Zr- 1%Nb-1.3%Sn-0.4%Fe, no change of the irradiation growth rate was observed up to a dose of 55 dpa. The onset of increased irradiation growth in alloys correlates with the occurrence of c-component dislocation loops which coincides with a loss of coherence of finely-dispersed precipitates. Post-irradiation annealing experiments demonstrated that a delay in loop formation leads to displacement of the "break-away" beginning in the dose dependence of the irradiation growth in the direction of high doses. The a+c-type dislocation loops were also formed in Zr-1%Nb alloy at high doses, but their influence on the change of macroscopic properties was not observed.
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The studies of the dislocation structure, phase, and microchemical compositions of alloy Zr-1Nb-1.2Sn-0.35Fe (E635) and its modifications containing Fe from 0.15 to 0.65% were carried out before and after research reactor irradiation at ~350°C to maximal fluence of ~1027 m-2 (E > 0.1 MeV) and at ~60°C. The size and concentration of the a-type loops depend on the alloy composition and fluence and saturate even at low doses (1 dpa). The evolution of the c-component dislocation structure in recrystallized alloys of E365 type is determined by the chemical and phase compositions of alloys specifically, by the Fe/Nb ratio and the threshold dose, and is consistent with the irradiation growth strain acceleration. In E635 alloy containing 0.15%Fe the accelerated growth is observed after the dose of 15 dpa and is attended with the evolution of the c dislocation structure which is similar to Zr-1Nb (E110) alloy behavior. The irradiation induced growth of E635 type alloy containing 0.65% Fe is similar to that of E635 having the normal composition; no
Accelerating irradiation growth has been reported for several zirconium alloys with a range of metallurgical states during high-temperature tests in fast-breeder reactors (673 to 723 K) for annealed Zircaloys in thermal test reactors at power reactor temperatures (523 to 623 K) and in power reactor core components fabricated from annealed or recrystallized Zircaloy. In the latter case, there was a transition from low to high irradiation growth rates at moderate fluences (about 3 x 1025 n/m2, E > 1 MeV, at 580 K) related to the nucleation and growth of basal plane c-component loops.