This report contributes to the development of a method for high-quality TEM lamella preparation from crack tip regions of nuclear materials. A standard compact tension (CT) specimen of Alloy 600 previously tested for stress corrosion crack growth in simulated PWR primary water was used to demonstrate the benefit of the proposed method. This report describes the procedure for cutting the CT specimen in order to access the crack tip region, and how TEM lamellas including crack tips were extracted with the use of Focused Ion Beam. Some high quality TEM images of crack tip regions were presented.
