Surface chemistry of neutron irradiated tungsten in a high-temperature multi-material environment☆

Chase N. Taylor; Masashi Shimada; Yuji Nobuta; Makoto I. Kobayashi; Yasuhisa Oya; Yuji Hatano; Takaaki Koyanagi

doi:10.1016/j.nme.2022.101323

Surface chemistry of neutron irradiated tungsten in a high-temperature multi-material environment☆

Chase N. Taylor
, Masashi Shimada
, Yuji Nobuta
, Makoto I. Kobayashi
, Yasuhisa Oya
, Yuji Hatano
, Takaaki Koyanagi

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Abstract

Deuterium retention was measured on neutron irradiated tungsten samples where one side of the samples had a visually clean metallic luster and the opposite side appeared to have a reacted surface film. Deuterium plasma exposure and subsequent thermal desorption from the reacted surface side produced spectra with larger total deuterium desorption at lower temperatures than from the clean surface side. For neutron irradiation, these W disk samples were installed in an irradiation capsule in such a way that one side of W sample was in contact with the surface of another W sample, and the opposite side was in contact with a SiC temperature monitor. The composition of the reacted surface was investigated using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and showed that SiC had interdiffused into the W samples. Neutron enhanced diffusion likely contributed to this as SiC and W are stable at temperatures exceeding the irradiation temperature. Results highlight the need to consider the surface chemistry of samples in drawing conclusions on hydrogen isotope retention of W materials and also illustrate the complexity of multi-material nuclear environments expected in fusion devices.

Original language	English
Article number	101323
Journal	Nuclear Materials and Energy
Volume	34
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nme.2022.101323
State	Published - Mar 2023

Funding

We thank A. Hasegawa for the preparation of W specimens. This work was prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fusion Energy Sciences, under the DOE Idaho Field Office contract number DE-AC07–05ID14517. This work was part of the US-Japan collaborative research projects, PHENIX and FRONTIER. Neutron irradiation was supported by the US Department of Energy, Office of Fusion Energy Sciences under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with UT-Battelle LCC. A portion of this research used resources at the High Flux Isotope Reactor, a DOE Office of Science User Facility operated by ORNL.

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Deuterium retention
Neutron irradiated tungsten
Surface chemistry
X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

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