RPV-1: A Virtual Test Reactor to simulate irradiation effects in light water reactor pressure vessel steels

Interactions between dislocations and irradiation-induced defects in light water reactor pressure vessel steels

“…[22]) reckon that both types of defect have analogous properties and can be considered as similar. For the building of RPV-1, we retained this position and considered that the SIA clusters behave as dislocation loops, whatever their size [7].…”

“…RPV-1 considers only four types of irradiationinduced defects [7]: spherical copper-rich precipitates containing Mn and Ni atoms, spherical vacancy clusters, spherical vacancy-solute atom (Cu, Mn, Ni) clusters and 2-D SIA-loops on {1 1 1} habit planes with 1 2 h1 1 1i Burgers vector. It also relies on the following hypotheses [5,7]:…”

“…This article is the third of a series aimed at presenting the codes and models used to build RPV-1 [6,7]. It describes the simplified approach followed to simulate the irradiation-induced hardening at 20°C.…”

INCAS: an analytical model to describe displacement cascades

“…This tool, called RPV-1, is described in a comprehensive way in [26]. It relies on three modules which can be shortly presented as follows:…”

Simulation of irradiation effects in light water reactor vessel steels – experimental validation of RPV-1

“…This article is the fourth of a series aimed at presenting RPV-1 [4][5][6]. It has a twofold objective:…”