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Discovering, Making, and Testing New Materials: SRNL’s Center For Hierarchical Waste Form Materials
Savannah River National Laboratory researchers are building on the laboratory’s legacy of using cutting-edge science to effectively immobilize nuclear waste in innovative ways. As part of the Center for Hierarchical Waste Form Materials, SRNL is leveraging its depth of experience in radiological waste management to explore new frontiers in the industry.
E. Denisov et al.
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 54 | Number 2 | August 2008 | Pages 493-496
Technical Paper | Materials Interactions | doi.org/10.13182/FST08-A1861
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The tritium trick technique was used to build-up radiogenic helium inside stainless steel 12Cr18Ni10Ti (SS). A great quantity of defects with a mean diameter of 20 nm, most probably platelet-like bubbles with 3He atoms, was observed in 3He-containing samples. The mean density of these bubbles in SS samples containing ~75 appm of 3He is estimated to be 61020 m-3. Much larger helium bubbles were observed in SS after annealing the samples at T1170 K. Thermal release of radiogenic helium occurs at T>1500 K. The presence of 3He in structural materials causes the formation of an additional state for hydrogen sorption.
