Descriptive characteristics of different types of test for irradiation embrittlement Original Research Article

Within the IAEA coordinated programme on optimizing of reactor pressure vessel surveillance programmes and their analysis, phase 3, a specially tailored radiation sensitive correlation monitor material, a Japanese steel plate with code designation JRQ, a French forging material (FFA) and a Japanese forging material (JFL) were selected for the investigations to be carried out in Finland. Based on the evaluation of the experimental results it was demonstrated that dynamic fracture toughness transition shift is equivalent to the Charpy-V shift, but the static fracture toughness transition shift may be considerably larger than the dyanamic shift. Thus, Charpy-V is not suitable for estimating the static fracture toughness transition shift. These findings have a strong impact upon the design of future surveillance programmes.