Published November 1985 | Version v1
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Recent experience and new developments in reactor pressure vessel manufacture

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In this paper, Framatome's recent experience and new developments in the manufacture of pressurized water reactor (PWR) reactor pressure vessel (RPV)s is described to show the very high standards of quality achieved to meet the most stringent requirements. Outstanding new developments include: qualification and utilisation of thick forged shell rings made from large hollow ingots; fully automatic submerged arc narrow gap welding; electroslag stainless steel cladding process; nozzle buttering by automatic hotwire TIG process

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Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
79 p.
Report number
FRADOC--7-3

Conference

Title
Meeting on recent trends in the development of primary circuit technology.
Dates
25-28 Nov 1985.
Place
Madrid (Spain).