Heavy-Section Steel Technology Program: five-year plan FY 1984-1988

This is the second in the current annual series of five-year program plan documents presented for the Heavy-Section Steel Technology Program. The program is aimed at advancing the understanding and validation of materials and structures behavior as they relate to light water reactor pressure vessel integrity. The program has nine technical tasks and a management function. A background statement and a plan-of-action is given for each. Lists of reports published by the program are included as part of the background information. The nine technical tasks address fracture methodology and analysis, materials characterization, crack growth, crack arrest, irradiation effects, cladding evaluations, intermediate-vessel testing, thermal-shock testing, and pressurized thermal-shock experiments