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Candidates for leadership provide statements: ANS Board of Directors
With the annual ANS election right around the corner, American Nuclear Society members will be going to the polls to vote for a vice president/president-elect, treasurer, and members-at-large for the Board of Directors. In January, Nuclear News published statements from candidates for vice president/president-elect and treasurer. This month, we are featuring statements from each nominee for the Board of Directors.
D. R. Duncan
Nuclear Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | July 1978 | Pages 199-206
Technical Paper | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT78-A32078
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Creep rates of metals can be greatly enhanced by neutron irradiation experienced in a fast reactor en vironment. Because irradiation-induced creep strains can be large in magnitude for duct and cladding components, the effect of irradiation creep on subsequent mechanical property behavior must be quantified to provide a design base for core component performance assessment. Pressurized tubes that had sustained a peak value of irradiation creep strain of 1.04% and peak fast fluences of 10 X 1022 n/cm2 under irradiation in the Experimental Breeder Reactor II from 650 to 857 K were tested in subsequent transient burst loading. Results of testing show that subsequent deformation, is unaffected by prior irradiation creep within experimental error.
