Materials chemistry of the alloy

Irradiation growth of RXA Zr-Nb alloys (E110, E635, NSF, M5, ZIRconium Low Oxidation (ZIRLO)) all exhibit a resistance to formation of <c> loops at low or intermediate fluence and as a result have lower growth than

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4.63 I rradiation growth of specimens at 320°C (593K) in the BOR 60 reactor. 20 dpa is equivalent to about 13 x 1021 n/cm2 in a BWR/

PWR. NSF and E635 alloys are nominally Zr1Nb1Sn0.35Fe alloys (Kobylyansky et al., 2007).

Zircaloys. The fluence to breakaway is not yet well defined but is probably at least 1.5 x 1022 n/cm2, E>1 MeV (see Fig. 4.63) corresponding to a burnup of about 75 MWd/kgU.