Resolution of the reactor vessel materials toughness safety issue; Task Action Plan A-11; main report and Appendixes A and B
Description
The central problem in the Unresolved Safety Issue A-11, 'Reactor Vessel Materials Toughness,' was to provide guidance in performing analyses for reactor pressure vessels (RPVs) which fail to meet the toughness requirements during service life as a result of neutron radiation embrittlement. A technical team of recognized experts was organized to assist the NRC staff in addressing the problem. Using the foundation of the tearing modulus concept, which has been developed under earlier NRC sponsorship, relationships were obtained which provided approximate solutions to the RPV fracture problem with assumed beltline region flaws. Volume I of this report is a brief presentation of the problem and the results; Volume II provides the detailed technical foundations
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MF available from INIS under the Report Number; Available from NTIS., PC A06/MF A01.
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Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 122 p.
- Report number
- NUREG--0744-V1
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 13702729
- Subject category
- S61: RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY; S22: GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS;
- Descriptors DEI
- EMBRITTLEMENT; PHYSICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; PRESSURE VESSELS; REACTOR MATERIALS; REACTOR SAFETY
- Descriptors DEC
- CONTAINERS; RADIATION EFFECTS; SAFETY