Irradiation-assisted stress corrosion cracking (IASCC) is one of the critical concerns when stainless steel components have been in service in light water reactors for a long period. In-core IASCC growth tests have been carried out using the compact tension-type specimens of type 304 stainless steel that had been pre-irradiated up to a neutron fluence level around 1 Â 10 25 n/m 2 under a pure water simulated boiling water reactor (BWR) coolant condition at the Japan Materials Testing Reactor (JMTR). In order to investigate the effect of synergy of neutron/gamma radiation and stress/water environment on SCC growth rate, we performed ex-core IASCC tests on irradiated specimens at several dissolved oxygen contents under the same electrochemical potential condition. In this paper, results of the in-core SCC growth tests are discussed and compared with the results obtained by ex-core tests from a viewpoint of the synergistic effects on IASCC. From results of in-core and ex-core tests using pre-irradiated specimens, the effect of synergy of neutron/gamma radiation and stress/water environment on SCC growth rate was considered to be small, because the in-core data under the same ECP condition were similar to the ex-core data under the DO ¼ 32 ppm condition.
Irradiation-assisted stress corrosion cracking (IASCC) is one of the critical concerns when stainless steel components have been in service in light water reactors for a long period. In-core IASCC growth tests have been carried out using the compact tension-type specimens of type 304 stainless steel that had been pre-irradiated up to a neutron fluence level around 1 Â 10 25 n/m 2 under a pure water simulated boiling water reactor (BWR) coolant condition at the Japan Materials Testing Reactor (JMTR). In order to investigate the effect of synergy of neutron/gamma radiation and stress/water environment on SCC growth rate, we performed ex-core IASCC tests on irradiated specimens at several dissolved oxygen contents under the same electrochemical potential condition. In this paper, results of the in-core SCC growth tests are discussed and compared with the results obtained by ex-core tests from a viewpoint of the synergistic effects on IASCC. From results of in-core and ex-core tests using pre-irradiated specimens, the effect of synergy of neutron/gamma radiation and stress/water environment on SCC growth rate was considered to be small, because the in-core data under the same ECP condition were similar to the ex-core data under the DO ¼ 32 ppm condition.
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