Ferritic-martensitic and oxide-dispersion strengthened steels, being the promising materials for nuclear reactors cladding, are not welded by liquid-phase methods (arc, laser welding) without additional heat treatment. A promising joining method is the welding by high-velocity impact. Along with the well-known explosion welding the pulsed magnetic technology used for aluminum, copper alloys and mild steels welding is actual.

A method for the manufacture of thin-walled tubular products from iridium by magnetic-pulse pressing and subsequent sintering of nanopowder has been developed. The use of high-purity nanosized iridium powder, active for sintering, allows maintaining the grain structure of a compact material in the submicron range and providing almost full density at a sintering temperature lower by several hundred degrees in comparison with traditional approaches.