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India’s PFBR attains criticality at last
Prime Minister Narendra Modi proclaimed it “a proud moment for India” when on April 6 the 500-MWe, sodium-cooled Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) achieved initial criticality. This milestone, which comes some 22 years after the continually delayed PFBR project began, marks India’s entrance into the second stage of its three-stage nuclear program, which has the ultimate goal of supporting the country’s nuclear power program with its significant thorium reserves.
A. J. Lovell
Nuclear Technology | Volume 16 | Number 1 | October 1972 | Pages 323-331
Technical Paper | Reactor Materials Performance / Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT72-A31198
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The effects of fast reactor irradiation on the creep behavior of annealed Type 316 stainless steel were reviewed and the interrelation between creep response and irradiation-induced microstructure development was analyzed. The effects of neutron fluence, irradiation temperature, and test temperature on creep response were studied using illustrative examples. The results indicate that use of creep data from unirradiated specimens for design purposes over estimates strain expected during irradiation, except when a component is stressed at low temperature following high temperature irradiation.
