Nuclear Corrosion Science and Engineering addresses the range of nuclear reactors and provides comprehensive and systematic information on the relevant nuclear corrosion mechanisms, science and engineering.

Coverage includes:

• fundamental corrosion mechanisms that affect nuclear power plants and facilities
• different types of both aqueous and non aqueous corrosion mechanisms and the nuclear materials susceptible to attack from them
• monitoring and control methodologies, as well as modelling and lifetime prediction approaches

Part 1: Introduction to Corrosion in Nuclear Power Applications
Part 2: Aqueous Corrosion in Nuclear Power Applications: Fundamental Science, Materials and Mechanisms
Part 3: Non-Aqueous Corrosion in Nuclear Power Applications: Fundamental Science, Materials and Mechanisms
Part 4: Corrosion Monitoring and Control in Nuclear Power Applications
Part 5: Corrosion Issues in Current Nuclear Reactors and Applications
Part 6: Corrosion Issues in Next Generation Nuclear Reactors and Advanced Applications

CONTENTS

Part 1: Introduction to Corrosion in Nuclear Power Applications

1. Overview of corrosion engineering, science and technology

• Fundamentals of aqueous metallic corrosion
• Forms of aqueous corrosion
• Corrosion control
• Metallurgical influences on corrosion
• Mechanical influences on corrosion

2. Overview of nuclear materials and nuclear corrosion science and engineering

• Nuclear environments
• Zirconium alloys
• Graphite
• Carbon steels and low alloy steels
• Stainless steels
• Nickel alloys
• Cobalt alloys
• Other alloys and composites

3. Understanding and mitigating corrosion in nuclear reactor systems

• Reactor coolant circuits
• Primary coolant systems
• Secondary coolant systems

Part 2: Aqueous Corrosion in Nuclear Power Applications: Fundamental Science, Materials and Mechanisms

4. General corrosion in nuclear reactor components and nuclear waste disposal systems

• Basic principles and mechanisms
• Nuclear components subject to general corrosion: reactor operations
• Nuclear components subject to general corrosion: back end of the fuel cycle

5. Environmentally assisted cracking (EAC) in nuclear reactor systems and components

• Basic principles of environmentally assisted cracking (EAC)
• Alloys and components exposed to environmentally assisted cracking (EAC) in nuclear industry
• Models and mechanisms of environmentally assisted cracking (EAC)

6. Irradiation assisted corrosion and stress corrosion cracking (IAC/IASCC) in nuclear reactor systems and components

• Irradiation effects on microchemistry and microstructure
• Irradiation effects on water chemistry
• Irradiation effects on corrosion and stress corrosion cracking (SCC): lab and plant data

7. Flow assisted corrosion (FAC) in nuclear power plant components

• General aspects of flow accelerated corrosion (FAC)
• Comprehensive and modeling flow accelerated corrosion (FAC)
• Theoretical model
• Systems and components susceptible to flow accelerated corrosion (FAC): maintenance programs and experience feedback

8. Microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) in nuclear power plant systems and components

• Biofilms and biofouling
• Microbial corrosion of different materials
• Industrial examples
• Tools to study microbial corrosion
• Protection against microbial corrosion

Part 3: Non-Aqueous Corrosion in Nuclear Power Applications: Fundamental Science, Materials and Mechanisms

9. High-temperature oxidation in nuclear reactor systems

• General behaviour of reactions at high temperatures
• Reactions with hot gases
• Solid-state reactions
• Mitigation

10. Liquid metal corrosion in nuclear reactor and accelerator driven systems

• Liquid metals as heat transfer fluids
• General features of corrosion and mass transfer in liquid metal systems
• Corrosion in liquid sodium systems
• Corrosion in lithium systems
• Corrosion in lead-lithium systems
• Corrosion in liquid lead and lead-bismuth eutectic systems

Part 4: Corrosion Monitoring and Control in Nuclear Power Applications

11. Electrochemical techniques for monitoring and controlling corrosion in water-cooled nuclear reactor systems

• Properties of the environment
• Sensors
• Reference electrodes
• Redox and corrosion potential sensors
• Hydrogen and oxygen sensors
• In situ corrosion monitors

12. On line electrochemical monitoring in light water nuclear reactor (LWR) systems

• Measurements in boiling water reactors (BWRs)
• Pressurized water reactor (PWR) primary system
• Pressurized water reactor (PWR) secondary system

13. Modelling corrosion in nuclear power plant systems

• Modelling techniques for corrosion: empirical and semi-empirical models
• Other modelling techniques

14. Lifetime prediction techniques for nuclear power plant systems

• Ageing management
• Risk informed inspection
• Integrity assessment methods and lifetime calculations of reactor pressure vessels, piping and other load-bearing components
• Ageing of concrete structures

Part 5: Corrosion Issues in Current Nuclear Reactors and Applications

15. Corrosion issues in pressurised water reactor (PWR) systems

• Primary circuits
• Stress corrosion cracking (SCC)
• Austenitic stainless steels – stress corrosion cracking (SCC)
• Secondary circuits: steam generators
• Secondary circuits: miscellaneous
• Tertiary circuits, fire protection systems and auxiliary circuits
• Monitoring, modelling and lifetime prediction methods
• Corrosion control and mitigation options

16. Intergranular stress corrosion cracking (IGSCC) in boiling water reactors

• Intergranular stress corrosion cracking (IGSCC) in boiling water reactor (BWR) piping
• Modeling and lifetime prediction methods for stainless steel
• Modeling and lifetime prediction methods for nickel-base alloys
• Mitigation of intergranular stress corrosion cracking (IGSCC) in boiling water reactors (BWRs)

17. Corrosion issues in pressurised heavy water reactor (PHWR/CANDU) systems

• Overview of CANDU materials degradation
• Monitoring, modelling, mitigation and lifetime prediction

18. Corrosion issues in water-cooled water-moderated nuclear reactor (WWER) systems

• Corrosion issues
• Monitoring and corrosion control

19. Corrosion issues in nuclear fuel reprocessing plants

• Context and corrosion issues
• Corrosion mechanisms of austenitic stainless steels in nitric media used in reprocessing plants
• Corrosion behaviour of zirconium in nitric media used in reprocessing plants

Part 6: Corrosion Issues in Next Generation Nuclear Reactors and Advanced Applications

20. Corrosion issues in high temperature gas cooled reactor (HTR) systems

• General high temperature reactor (HTR) plant description
• Outline of the main corrosion issues specifically related to the high temperature reactor (HTR) technology
• High temperature corrosion of structural metallic alloys in the primary coolant He of a high temperature reactor (HTR)
• Oxidation of different graphite materials used in high temperature reactor (HTR) systems
• UO2/C interaction inside the tristructural-isotropic (TRISO) fuel
• Corrosion studies on the pebble bed modular reactor (PBMR) spent fuel tank materials

21. Corrosion issues in sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) systems

• Core and structural materials for sodium cooled fast reactors (SFRs)
• Corrosion issues related to sodium cooled fast reactors (SFRs)
• Corrosion estimation for design

22. Corrosion issues in lead-cooled fast reactor (LFR) and accelerator driven systems (ADS)

• Overview of corrosion in liquid lead alloys
• Corrosion issues and reactor concepts
• Development of protective coatings
• Modelling and lifetime prediction methods

23. Corrosion issues in molten salt reactor (MSR) systems

• The development and operational experience of molten salt reactors (MSRs)
• Corrosion processes in molten salts
• Review of molten salt corrosion data
• Monitoring, modelling and lifetime prediction methods
• Material development and corrosion control

24. Corrosion issues in super-critical water reactor (SCWR) systems

• Corrosion in supercritical water reactor (SCWRs)
• Stress corrosion cracking (SCC) in supercritical water

25. Corrosion issues in thermonuclear fusion reactors and facilities (ITER/IFMIF)

• Corrosion issues for the international thermonuclear experimental reactor (ITER)
• Corrosion issues for fusion power reactors
• Corrosion issues for international fusion materials irradiation facility (IFMIF)
• Modelling tools

26. Corrosion issues of radioactive waste packages in geological disposal systems

• Potential corrosion issues in waste packages
• Experimental and modelling approaches to the corrosion behaviour of waste package constituents

Appendix: Corrosion issues in radioactive waste interim storage facilities

• Corrosion resistant concept
• Corrosion allowance concept
• Environmental conditions of an interim storage
• Possible corrosion phenomena during interim storage
• Dry corrosion of the containers during interim storage
• Atmospheric corrosion of the containers in interim storage conditions

Index

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