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Takamizawa, Hisashi; Hata, Kuniki; Nishiyama, Yutaka; Toyama, Takeshi*; Nagai, Yasuyoshi*
Journal of Nuclear Materials, 556, p.153203_1 - 153203_10, 2021/12
Times Cited Count：3 Percentile：44.61(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)Solute clusters (SCs) formed in pressurized water reactor surveillance test specimens neutron-irradiated to a fluence of 1 
10
n/cm
were analyzed via atom probe tomography to understand the effect of silicon on solute clustering and irradiation embrittlement of reactor pressure vessel steels. In high-Cu bearing materials, Cu atoms were aggregated at the center of cluster surrounded by the Ni, Mn, and Si atoms like a core-shell structure. In low-Cu bearing materials, Ni, Mn, and Si atoms formed cluster and these solutes were not comprised core-shell structure in SCs. While the number of Cu atoms in clusters was decreased with decreasing nominal Cu content, the number of Si atoms had clearly increased. The cluster radius (
) and number density (
) decreased and increased, respectively, with increasing nominal Si content. The shift in the reference temperature for nil-ductility transition (
RT
) showed a good correlation with the square root of volume fraction (
) multiplied by r (
). This suggested that the dislocation cutting through the particles mechanism dominates the precipitation hardening responsible for irradiation embrittlement. The negative relation between the nominal Si content and RT indicated that increasing of nominal Si content reduces the degree of embrittlement.
Ha, Yoosung; Takamizawa, Hisashi; Hanawa, Satoshi; Nishiyama, Yutaka; Ebisawa, Naoki*; Toyama, Takeshi*; Nagai, Yasuyoshi*
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Heat affected zone (HAZ) under stainless overlay cladding of RPV steel was irradiated by iron ions. To investigate the mechanism of irradiation hardening, the solute clusters distributions were confirmed by 3D-Atom Probe Tomography analysis, and the correlation between the irradiation hardening and the microstructure change in HAZ and matrix was discussed. As result of APT analysis, Cu and Si-Mn-Ni clusters were observed in irradiated area, but not in un-irradiated area. The distributions of cluster were different in coarse grain HAZ, fine grain HAZ and matrix, and the amounts of clusters in matrix were significantly lower than that in HAZ. In addition, size, chemical composition and number densities of clusters and their distributions were correlated with irradiation hardening.
Hata, Kuniki
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