Modeling the Failure of Nuclear Waste Containers

Corrosion (Houston)

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 820-829

  Shoesmith, D W ^a   Ikeda, B M ^a   LeNeveu, D M ^a  

^a ATOMIC ENERGY OF CANADA LIMITED   (Canada)

Author keywords

Corrosion rate; Crevice corrosion; Failure time; Hydrogen induced cracking; Modeling; Nuclear waste containers; Temperature; Titanium

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000024436     PISSN: 00109312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5006/1.3290267     Document Type: Article

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