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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 1984
Filed:
Jul. 10, 1981
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gunnar Vesterlund, Vaster.ang.s, SE;
Erik T Anderson, Sandviken, SE;
Assignee:
Santrade Ltd., Lucerne, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C22F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
148 / ; 148 / ;
Abstract
In the manufacture of cladding tubes of a zirconium-based alloy for fuel rods for nuclear reactors by extrusion of the zirconium-based alloy and cold rollings of the extruded product with annealings, intermediate annealings, between the cold rollings and a .beta.-quenching prior to the last cold rolling, a cladding tube is provided which has at the same time good corrosion properties and mechanical properties by performing the .beta.-quenching prior to a cold rolling, after which an intermediate annealing is performed at a temperature of 500.degree.-610.degree. C.