TEM/STEM observation of ZrC coating layer for advanced high-temperature gas-cooled reactor fuel, Part II

革新的高温ガス炉燃料用ZrC被覆層のTEM/STEM観察,2

相原 純 ; 植田 祥平   ; 安田 淳; 石橋 英春; 茂住 泰寛; 沢 和弘; 本橋 嘉信*

Aihara, Jun; Ueta, Shohei; Yasuda, Atsushi; Ishibashi, Hideharu; Mozumi, Yasuhiro; Sawa, Kazuhiro; Motohashi, Yoshinobu*

ZrC被覆層は原子力機構にて臭化物法で作製された。公称被覆温度は一定に保たれた。公称被覆温度を評価できるようになってからの複数のバッチのZrC層の微細組織をTEMとSTEMで観察し、過去の研究結果も含めて議論した。約1630Kで被覆したZrC粒は配向性を持っていた。この配向性は過去の研究のものとは大きく異なった。また、被覆温度により異なるPyC/ZrC境界の構造が観察された。高温(1769K)被覆の場合、繊維状カーボンがPyC/ZrC境界及び境界近くのポア周辺で観察されたが、低温(1632K)被覆の場合には観察されなかった。

The ZrC coating layer was fabricated with bromide process at JAEA. In a later stage of the project, we have successfully kept nominal deposition temperature almost constant. Microstructures of the ZrC layers, of which nominal deposition temperatures were able to measure, were characterized by means of TEM and STEM and the results were compared and discussed with those obtained for different batches including those reported in a previous study. The ZrC grains were oriented in the ZrC layers deposited at about 1630 K. This feature was rather different from that reported in the previous study. The formation of fairly different PyC structures was found on the PyC/ZrC boundary as well as around the pores existing near the boundary. Fibrous carbons were observed on the PyC/ZrC boundary produced in a batch deposited at a higher temperature (nominal temperature was 1769 K); no such fibrous carbons were found in a batch deposited at a lower temperature (nominal temperature was 1632 K).