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Seki, Masayuki; Kihara, Yoshiyuki; Kaito, Takeji; Tsukada, Tatsuya*; Motoki, Kazuhiko*; Hirako, Kazuhito*
Proceedings of International Conference on Toward and Over the Fukushima Daiichi Accident (GLOBAL 2011) (CD-ROM), 5 Pages, 2011/12
Oxide Dispersion Strengthened (ODS) steel has been developed as an advanced fuel cladding tube for sodium cooled fast reactors in Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) to attain the target burn up of 150 GWd/t in the bundle average because of its excellent swelling resistance and high mechanical strength in high temperature. If conventional TIG welding is applied to the ODS welding, it is difficult to obtain necessary mechanical strength at the weld zone because of the formation of porosity. It is formed by the argon bubbles which initially dissolve in the matrix and grow up under the high temperature during welding. Therefore JAEA has been conducted the development of pressurized resistance welding (PRW) technology for ODS cladding tube, which is one of the solid state welding methods. This paper describes in the development of PRW technology, an ultrasonic test method for detecting weld defects, the result of machine strength measurement examination in weld part and the result of fuel pin irradiation examination using nuclear reactor.
Seki, Masayuki; Ishibashi, Fujio; Kihara, Yoshiyuki; Hirako, Kazuhito*; Tsukada, Tatsuya*
JNC TN8410 2005-009, 131 Pages, 2005/04
The development of the welding technology for the ODS steel was started in JFY1987. The first welding examination used the tungsten inert-gas (TIG) welding method and the YAG pulse laser welding method. However, the existing fusion welding methods significantly degrade strength at the welded section, because large size of blowholes appears at the weld and induce coagulation of oxides to generate coarser particles. To solve this problem, we have developed pressurized resistance welding (PRW) as a solid phase welding method.The appropriate conditions, e.g. electric current, voltage and contact force, were selected. For the PRW welded specimens, the tensile, internal burst and creep rupture tests were conducted and its integrity was confirmed. In addition, an ultrasonic inspection method has been developed to assure non-destructively integrity of the welding between cladding and end-plug.
Seki, Masayuki; Kihara, Yoshiyuki; Hirako, Kazuhito*; Motoki, Kazuhiko*; Tsukada, Tatsuya*
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Seki, Masayuki; Kihara, Yoshiyuki; Tsukada, Tatsuya*; Motoki, Kazuhiko*; Hirako, Kazuhito*
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no abstracts in English