Neutron irradiation of tungsten in hydrogen environment at HFIR

Nesrin O. Cetiner; Yuji Hatano; Joel L. McDuffee; Dan Ilas; Yutai Katoh; Josina W. Geringer; Takeshi Toyama

doi:10.1016/j.fusengdes.2022.113089

Neutron irradiation of tungsten in hydrogen environment at HFIR

Nesrin O. Cetiner, Yuji Hatano, Joel L. McDuffee, Dan Ilas, Yutai Katoh, Josina W. Geringer, Takeshi Toyama

International Research Center for Nuclear Materials Science

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Abstract

Neutron irradiation of tungsten with and without the presence of hydrogen is needed to understand the influence of hydrogen on microstructure development under fusion reactor conditions. However, there is a risk of ignition if air ingress occurs during seal welding of irradiation capsules in a pressurized hydrogen environment. Therefore, an irradiation capsule was designed that contains several disks of vanadium hydrides at a 30% hydrogen-to-metal atomic ratio. During irradiation, the hydrogen is released from the hydrides as the capsule temperature increases, so the irradiation capsule environment is mostly hydrogen when the capsule reaches its 400 °C design temperature. This paper describes the design and operating characteristics of this first-of-a-kind irradiation capsule.

Original language	English
Article number	113089
Journal	Fusion Engineering and Design
Volume	178
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2022.113089
Publication status	Published - 2022 May

Keywords

Fusion reactors
HFIR
HFIR irradiation experiment
Hydrogen infused vanadium
Hydrogen retention
Tungsten irradiation

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Civil and Structural Engineering
Nuclear Energy and Engineering
Materials Science(all)
Mechanical Engineering

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