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SC Nuclear Summit focuses on V.C. Summer
The second annual South Carolina Nuclear Summit held last week featured utility executives and legislators from the state, as well as leaders from Brookfield Asset Management, which is being considered to restart construction on the two abandoned reactors at the V.C. Summer nuclear power plant in Fairfield County. The summit, at the University of South Carolina’s Colonial Life Arena, attracted more than 350 attendees. The event was hosted by the university’s Molinaroli College of Engineering and Computing.
Rikizo Watanabe
Nuclear Technology | Volume 66 | Number 1 | July 1984 | Pages 69-74
A. Selection, Production, and Development of Alloys for HTGR Component | Status of Metallic Materials Development for Application in Advanced High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor / Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT84-A33456
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A grain boundary precipitation treatment was studied for the purpose of improving the high-temper-ature low-cycle fatigue strength of a Ni-23% Cr- 18% W alloy, SSS113M, which had been developed as an intermediate heat exchanger material of very high temperature reactors and evaluated as the best alloy in the national R&D program of nuclear steelmaking in Japan. A conventional standard solution treatment of 1300°C × 1 h water quenched does not cause any grain boundary precipitation in SSS113M, but an additional heat treatment of 1250°C × 1 h causes discontinuous grain boundary precipitation of the alpha-tungsten phase. This grain boundary precipitation treatment results in two- to fivefold increases of low-cycle fatigue lives at 800°C as well as slight increases of the creep and stress rupture strength at 1000°C.