The trapping behavior of deuterium in F82H ferritic/martensitic steel

Abstract In the present work, the trapping behavior of deuterium in F82H under irradiation were studied by means of thermal desorption spectrometry (TDS) and TEM. The specimens were first irradiated with 5 keV He+ at 600 °C followed by the additional D 2 + irradiations with the energy of 0.5 keV at RT. Some of the specimens were also irradiated with relatively higher energy of 1 MeV for He+ and 650 keV for D 2 + ions. According to thermal desorption measurements of deuterium and helium after irradiations, deuterium desorption peak shift to higher temperatures of about 30 K were observed for the case with helium irradiations, which attributed to the deuterium trapped by a surroundings of the helium bubbles. In addition, it is also concluded from the thermal desorption measurements of deuterium on re-tempered and as-received specimens without helium irradiations that the latently existing carbides can acts as a potential trapping site for deuterium in F82H.