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Aihara, Jun; Ueta, Shohei; Yasuda, Atsushi; Takeuchi, Hitoshi; Sawa, Kazuhiro; Motohashi, Yoshinobu*
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We report in this study the microstructural change of the ZrC coating layers with annealing. We already reported the microstructures of as-fabricated ZrC coating layers last year. ZrC coated particles were annealed at about 1800 
C for 1 hour to simulate the sintering process of the real HTGR fuel. With annealing, ZrC grains were slightly grown especially near the surface regions and kept their orientation. The free carbons and/or voids cohered at the grain boundaries. The cohered free carbons and/or voids were appeared to form the clods of the free carbon ribbons. In addition, IPyC/ZrC boundary structure changed. Fibrous carbon texture was found at IPyC/ZrC boundary even in the specimen of the batch of which that texture was not observed in the as-fabricated specimen.
Sato, Hidetomo*; Nakano, Hiromasa*; Yokota, Hitoshi*; Suzuki, Tetsuya*; Maekawa, Katsuhiro*; Kurata, Yuji
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Liquid lead-bismuth is a candidate material used for accelerator driven systems and fast reactors. One of difficulties to apply Pb-Bi to nuclear systems is the corrosiveness of liquid Pb-Bi to structural steels. For this reason the study has been focused on improvement of corrosion resistance due to addition of Si and Al to steels. In this study, type 316 stainless steel was coated by Al-Ti-Fe eutectic alloy layer to enhance corrosion resistance in liquid lead-bismuth. The coating was conducted by a powder eutectic method using laser heating. The optimum condition to produce good coating layers was obtained concerning laser pulse energy and chemical composition of powders.