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Analyses of core Shroud materials by three dimensional atom probe (Contract research)

Kondo, Keietsu  ; Nemoto, Yoshiyuki  ; Miwa, Yukio; Kaji, Yoshiyuki  ; Tsukada, Takashi ; Nagai, Yasuyoshi*; Hasegawa, Masayuki*; Okubo, Tadakatsu*; Hono, Kazuhiro*

There has been an increasing number of stress corrosion cracking (SCC) incidents on low carbon austenitic stainless steels used in boiling water reactor (BWR) environments. To reveal the acceleration factor of intergranular crack propagation from the viewpoint of solute distribution in stainless steels, the material extracted from a core shroud of Japanese BWR was analyzed by the three dimensional atom probe (3DAP), which has the highest spatial resolution among the various microanalytical techniques. It was revealed by statistical analysis on 3DAP data that solute elements, such as Fe, Cr, Ni, Mo, Mn, Si, are randomly distributed in matrix of the shroud material. This result means that solute was not segregated or precipitated and was not form spinodal decomposition during the service. The concentration profile in the vicinity of grain boundary obtained from 3DAP dataset showed the random distribution of Cr. This result shows that degradation of the corrosion resistance induced by depletion of Cr was not responsible for the crack propagation along grain boundaries in low carbon stainless steel. On the other hand, enrichment of Mo and Si was observed at grain boundary. The width of the enriched zone was about 2 nm across the grain boundary, and the concentration of those elements could be much higher than the concentration obtained by field emission transmission electron microscopy/energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (FE-TEM/EDS). Therefore, it is necessary to study about the effects of enrichment of Mo and Si as a potential contributor to SCC.

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