DOE/ER-0313/39 - Volume 39
Semiannual Progress Report
December 31, 2005

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1_VANADIUM ALLOYS

1. FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON V-4Cr-4Ti PRESSURIZED CREEP TUBES—D. S. Gelles, R. J. Kurtz, M. B. Toloczko, and L. E. Thomas (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory). pp. 2-10.
2. COMPRESSION TESTING OF UNIRRADIATED V-4Cr-4Ti—M. M. Fryd (Lawrence University), M. B. Toloczko, and R. J. Kurtz (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), pp. 11-16.

2_CERAMIC COMPOSITE MATERIALS

1. ON He BUBBLES IN NEUTRON IRRADIATED SYLRAMIC™ TYPE SiC FIBERS—D. S. Gelles and G. E. Youngblood (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), pp. 18-26.
2. EFFECT OF NEUTRON IRRADIATION ON TENSILE PROPERTIES OF UNIDIRECTIONAL SILICON CARBIDE COMPOSITES—Y. Katoh, T. Nozawa, L. L. Snead, and T. Hinoki (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), pp. 27-34.
3. SWELLING OF SiC AT INTERMEDIATE AND HIGH IRRADIATION TEMPERATURES—L. L. Snead, Y. Katoh, and S. Connery (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), pp. 35-45.
4. ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SiC/SiC—G. E. Youngblood, E. Thomsen, and G. Coffey (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), pp. 46-51.
5. THE EFFECT OF NEUTRON IRRADIATION ON INTERFACIAL SHEAR PROPERTIES OF SILICON CARBIDE COMPOSITES WITH MULTILAYER INTERPHASE—T. Nozawa, Y. Katoh, and L. L. Snead (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), pp. 52-56.
6. COATINGS AND JOINING FOR SiC/SiC COMPOSITES FOR NUCLEAR ENERGY SYSTEMS—C. H. Henager, Jr., and Y. Shin (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Y. Blum (SRI), L. A. Giannuzzi (FEI Company), and S. M. Schwarz (University of Central Florida and NanoSpective, Inc.), pp. 57-60.
7. SWELLING AND TIME-DEPENDENT CRACK GROWTH IN SiC/SiC COMPOSITES—C. H. Henager, Jr. (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), pp. 61-63.

3_FERRITIC/MARTENSITIC STEELS

1. THE TRANSPORT AND FATE OF HELIUM IN MARTENSITIC STEELS AT FUSION RELEVANT HE/DPA RATIOS AND DPA RATES—R. J. Kurtz (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), G. R. Odette, T. Yamamoto (University of California, Santa Barbara), D. S. Gelles (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), P. Miao (University of California, Santa Barbara), and B. M. Oliver (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, pp. 65-71.
2. MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF IRRADIATED 9CR-2WVTA STEEL WITH AND WITHOUT NICKEL—R. L. Klueh and M. A. Sokolov (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), pp. 72-76.
3. NEW NANO-PARTICLE-STRENGTHENED FERRITIC/MARTENSITIC STEELS BY CONVENTIONAL THERMOMECHANICAL TREATMENT—R. L. Klueh and N. Hashimoto (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), pp. 77-83.

4_COPPER ALLOYS

1. EFFECT OF HEAT TREATMENTS ON PRECIPITATE MICROSTRUCTURE AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF A CuCrZr ALLOY—D. J. Edwards (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), B. N. Singh (Risø National Laboratory, Denmark), and S. Tähtinen (VTT Industries, Finland), pp. 85-90.

5_REFRACTORY METALS AND ALLOYS

1. FLOW AND FRACTURE BEHAVIOR OF MOLYBDENUM NEUTRON-IRRADIATED AT 80°C—M. Li, T. S. Byun, N. Hashimoto, L. L. Snead, and S. J. Zinkle (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), pp. 92-106.

6_AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEELS

1. VOID SWELLING OF AISI 321 ANALOG STAINLESS STEEL IRRADIATED AT LOW DPA RATES IN THE BN-350 REACTOR—O. P. Maksimkin, K. V. Tsai, L. G. Turubarova, T. Doronina (Institute of Nuclear Physics) and F. A. Garner (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), pp. 108-114.
2. MICROSTRUCTURE AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL 12X18?N9T AFTER NEUTRON IRRADIATION IN THE PRESSURE VESSEL OF BR-10 FAST REACTOR AT VERY LOW DOSE RATES—S. I. Porollo, A. M. Dvoriashin, Yu. V. Konobeev, A. A. Ivanov, and S. V. Shulepin (Institute of Physics and Power Engineering) and F. A. Garner (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), pp. 115-126.

7_MHD INSULATORS, COATINGS, INSULATING CERAMICS, AND OPTICAL MATERIALS

1. COMPATIBILITY OF MULTI-LAYER, ELECTRICALLY INSULATING COATINGS FOR THE VANADIUM-LITHIUM BLANKET—B. A. Pint and J. L. Moser (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), A. Jankowski and J. Hayes (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), pp. 128-133.
2. INVESTIGATION OF Pb-Li COMPATIBILITY FOR THE DUAL COOLANT TEST BLANKET MODULE—B. A. Pint, J. L. Moser, and P. F. Tortorelli (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA), pp. 134-140.

8_BREEDING MATERIALS

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9_RADIATION EFFECTS, MECHANISTIC STUDIES, AND EXPERIMENTAL METHODS

1. THE INTERACTION OF HELIUM ATOMS WITH SCREW DISLOCATIONS IN α-Fe—H. L. Heinisch, F. Gao, and R. J. Kurtz (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), pp. 143-146.
2. KINETIC MONTE CARLO STUDIES OF THE REACTION KINETICS OF CRYSTAL DEFECTS THAT DIFFUSE ONE-DIMENSIONALLY WITH OCCASIONAL TRANSVERSE MIGRATION—H. L. Heinisch (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), H. Trinkaus (Institute für Festkörperforshung), and B. N. Singh (Risø National Laboratory), pp. 147-150.
3. THERMAL HELIUM DESORPTION SPECTROMETRY OF HELIUM-IMPLANTED IRON—D. Xu, T. Bus, S. C. Glade, and B. D. Wirth (University of California, Berkeley), pp. 151-159.
4. MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS OF POINT DEFECT INTERACTIONS IN FE-CR ALLOYS—K. L. Wong, J. H. Shim, and B. D. Wirth (University of California, Berkeley), pp. 160-166.
5. ATOMISTIC MODELING OF THE INTERACTION OF HE WITH NANOCLUSTERS IN FE—R. J. Kurtz, F. Gao, and H. L. Heinisch (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), B. D. Wirth (University of California, Berkeley), G. R. Odette and T. Yamamoto (University of California, Santa Barbara), pp. 167-173.
6. DIFFUSION OF He INTERSTITIAL AND SMALL CLUSTERS AT GRAIN BOUNDARIES IN α-Fe—F. Gao, R. J. Kurtz, and H. L. Heinisch, Jr. (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), pp. 174-176.
7. MODELLING THERMODYNAMICS OF ALLOYS FOR FUSION APPLICATION—A. Caro, B. Sadigh, M. Caro, J. Marian (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), E. Lopasso (Centro Atomico Bariloche, Argentine), and D. Crowson (Virginia Polytechnical Institute), pp. 177-182.

10_DOSIMETRY, DAMAGE PARAMETERS, AND ACTIVATION CALCULATIONS

1. ERRATUM to "NEUTRON DOSIMETRY AND DAMAGE CALCULATIONS FOR THE HFIR-MFE-200J-1 IRRADIATION," in Fusion Materials Semiannual Progress Report for Period Ending December 31, 1997, DOE/ER-0313/23,(pp. 329–332), pp. 184.

11_MATERIALS ENGINEERING AND DESIGN REQUIREMENTS

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13_IRRADIATION FACILITIES AND TEST MATRICES

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