Nuclear Corrosion
Research, Progress and Challenges

Presents an overview on the entire nuclear corrosion story, including research, progress and challenges

Stefan Ritter (Edited by)

9780128237199

Hardback, published 15 August 2020

496 pages, 110 illustrations (40 in full color)
22.9 x 15.1 x 3 cm, 0.98 kg

Approx.472 pages

1. Fifty years of nuclear corrosion in Europe: evolutions and contributions of the EFC Working Party on Nuclear Corrosion 2. Environmentally-assisted cracking of stainless steels in light water reactors 3. Mechanisms behind irradiation-assisted stress corrosion cracking 4. Environmentally-assisted cracking of nickel-base alloys in light water reactors 5. Environmentally-assisted cracking of carbon and low-alloy steels in light water reactors 6. Flow-accelerated corrosion in nuclear power plants 7. Understanding the corrosion processes of fuel cladding in pressurised water reactors 8. Corrosion behaviour of stainless steels in nitric acid in the context of nuclear fuel reprocessing plants 9. The corrosion behaviour of stainless steel in conditions relevant to the storage of intermediate level radioactive waste 10. The corrosion of radioactive waste disposal canisters based on in-situ tests 11. Copper behaviour in geological nuclear waste disposal 12. Material research for the supercritical water-cooled reactor - summary and open issues 13. Corrosion of structural materials by liquid metals used in fusion, fission and spallation

Subject Areas: Materials science [TGM]