Structural Materials for Fuel Cladding and Sub-Assembly Wrappers of the BN-600 Reactor

5/29/2012 2011 - #01 Nuclear materials

Mitrofanova N.M. Tselishchev A.V. Ageev V.S. Budanov Yu.P. Ioltukhovsky A.G. Leonteva-Smirnova M.V. Reshetnikov F.G. Bibilashvili Yu.K. Shkabura I.A. Ivanov Yu.A.

https://doi.org/10.26583/npe.2011.1.23

The results of research into materials such as wrapper and cladding steels of various grades for the BN-600 fuel sub-assemblies are presented. Different steel types are compared in terms of the operating reliability. The prospective steel patterns for the commercial BN-1200 reactor are determined.