Abstract:Nuclear power plants have been an important source of energy in many countries for the last fifty years. The Canadian supercritical water cooled reactors (SCWR), among the Generation IV reactors, are currently being designed in Canada and many other countries. It presents challenges for many scientists and engineers due to the harsh environment in which the reactor must operate and the lack of knowledge of material's performance in this corrosive conditions of high temperature and pressure. This thesis entails… Show more
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