Direct measurement of hydrogen diffusivity and solubility limits in Zircaloy 2 (formula unit of ZrH0.0155) using incoherent quasi-elastic neutron scattering

The diffusivity of hydrogen is an important property of light water nuclear reactor (LWR) fuel cladding. LWR cladding absorbs hydrogen during normal operation, a contributing factor to embrittlement that decreases the lifetime of the fuel. Mass transport of hydrogen is dictated by an Arrhenius behav...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of nuclear materials. Journal des materiaux nucleaires. - 1998. - 518(2019) vom: 24. Mai
1. Verfasser: Heuser, Brent J (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Prisk, Timothy R, Lin, Jun-Li, Dax, Tanya J, Zhang, Yongfeng
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2019
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Journal of nuclear materials. Journal des materiaux nucleaires
Schlagworte:Journal Article Activation energy Hydrogen diffusion Neutron scattering Solubility limit Zircaloy
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520 |a The diffusivity of hydrogen is an important property of light water nuclear reactor (LWR) fuel cladding. LWR cladding absorbs hydrogen during normal operation, a contributing factor to embrittlement that decreases the lifetime of the fuel. Mass transport of hydrogen is dictated by an Arrhenius behavior typical of solid state diffusion and the associated activation energy is therefore a property relevant to LWR fuel performance. We have used incoherent quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS) to directly measure the diffusivity of hydrogen in recrystallized Zircaloy 2 with a hydrogen concentration of 170 µg/g . We rely upon the low-Q expansion for long-range diffusion to determine diffusivity as a function of temperature between 572 and 780 K. We find the diffusivity is given by D T = 0.0067 exp (-0.461 eV/kT) [cm2/s] below 670 K and by D T = 0.0012 exp (-0.36 eV/kT) [cm2/s] above 670 K. Our activation energy below 670 K agrees with the value typically used to assess hydrogen diffusivity in LWR cladding [Kearns, Journal of Nuclear Materials 43 (1972) 330], but is approximately 20% lower above 670 K. The two different activation barriers are attributed to impurity trapping of hydrogen solutes at lower temperature that ceases to influence diffusivity at higher temperature. The application of the Oriani model for diffusion with impurity trapping to our system demonstrates the plausibility of this hypothesis. We believe this mechanism may be responsible for historical discrepancies of measured hydrogen diffusivity in Zr-based alloys. The elastic intensity versus temperature in fixed window scans exhibit inflection points that are in good agreement with the published terminal solid solution solubility limits for hydrogen in Zircaloy 2 
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700 1 |a Prisk, Timothy R  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Lin, Jun-Li  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Dax, Tanya J  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Zhang, Yongfeng  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
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