The phenomenon of irradiation creep in graphite is essential to the design and construction of graphite-moderated reactors. Recent experimental results have shown large apparent reductions in creep rate for creep strains greater than ?I'%. It is shown that this is not a true reduction in creep rate,
A high temperature graphite irradiation creep experiment in the dragon reactor
β Scribed by R. Manzel; M.R. Everett; L.W. Graham
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1972
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 142 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-6223
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