Electromagnetic evaluation of hydrogen content in Zr 2.5%Nb alloy
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R.Grimberg , M.L.Craus , A.Savin , R.Steigmann , M.Ruch 3 1 National Institute of Research and Development for Technical Physics, Iasi, Romania 2 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia 3 CNEA, Buenos Aires, Argentina Abstract Zr 2.5%Nb alloys have wide utilization in nuclear energy engineering, being used at the fabrication of pressure tubes from Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors (PHWR). This paper proposes to present an electromagnetic method for determination of diffused hydrogen/deuterium content based on the measurement of conductivity, correlating the theoretical results with those experimental obtained on samples cropped from non-irradiated pressure tubes. The methods can be used directly, the results being obtained by data inversion.
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