Abstract
Cables used in a nuclear power plant are irradiation suppressing ones. Until now, researches on the irradiation suppressing cables have mainly been focused on insulation materials. Therefore, in this paper, the non-isothermal crystallization behaviors and degradation characteristics of ethylene vinyl acetate–carbon black (EVA–CB), used as a shielding material, were investigated by means of the Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and chemiluminescence analyzer (CL). The specimens were cooled after removing thermal history at 150 °C for 5 min by changing the cooling rates to 5, 7.5, 10, 15 and 20 °C/min with DSC. In addition, after maintaining a thermal equilibrium at each temperature of 25, 50, 75, 100, 125, 150 and 175 °C, their thermoluminescence was measured for 20 min with CL equipment. The 60Co γ-ray was used for irradiation. T c, T 0, T ∞ and t 1/2 in the DSC experiments are found to decrease gradually as radiation dose increases. Secondly, with the CL experiment, the 0.1, 0.25 and 0.5 MGy EVA–CB composites were found to show a much smaller thermoluminescence than the intact EVA–CB composites, while the 0.75 and 1 MGy EVA–CB composites were found to show a much higher thermoluminescence than ones.
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