<span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Ferritic/Martensitic steels, with chromium contents ranging between 9 and 12%, were introduced into fusion material programs due to their better creep resistance and excellent thermal and nuclear properties compared to austenitic stainless steels. Reduced activation ferritic/martensitic (RAFM) steels are considered promising candidates for the test blanket modules of the future International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), being EUROFER steel is the EU reference material. It is a 9 % Cr RAFM steel which exhibits a tempered martensitic <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">microstructure and presently allows operation up to 550 </span><span style="font-family: Cambria Math;">⁰</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">C. This paper shows the work carried out</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> to develop at a pilot plant scale a Reduced Activation Ferritic/Martensitic (RAFM) steel, Asturfer </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: xx-small;">®</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">,</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> with chemical composition and mechanical properties very close to EUROFER steel. </span>
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