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Effects of Aging in High Temperature Helium Environments on Room Temperature Tensile Properties of Nickel-Base Superalloys 1,2 1 1 Daejong Kim , Injin Sah , and Changheui Jang * 1Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering, KAIST, 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea 2Nuclear Materials Technology Development Division, KAERI, 150 Deogjin-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305- 600, Republic of Korea *Corresponding author, Tel.: +82-42-350-3824, Fax: +82-42-350-3810, E-mail: chjang@kaist.ac.kr Abstract The influence of high temperature aging treatment on room temperature tensile properties of wrought nickel-base superalloys Alloy 617 and Haynes 230 was investigated. A significant decrease in elongation was observed for Alloy 617 exposed to a heavily oxidizing and decarburizing condition because of coarsening of grain boundary carbides and extensive inter-granular oxidation. On the other hand, Haynes 230 showed much lower ductility when exposed to a heavily carburizing condition, o especially at 1000 C because extensive carburization occurred due to a reaction with tungsten. Considerable loss of ductility for Alloy 617 and Haynes 230 was also observed in He-H -H O-CO- 2 2 CO -CH and He-H O-CO-CO environments, which were the slightly oxidizing and decarburizing 2 4 2 2 conditions. Loss of ductility was predominantly associated with brittle inter-granular cracking, while the extent of