Review of liquid metal corrosion issues for potential containment materials for liquid lead and lead-bismuth eutectic spallation targets as a neutron source

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 196, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 315-325

  Park, John J ^a   Butt, Darryl P ^b   Beard, Carl A ^c  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CERAMATEC INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH; CORROSION; LEAD; LIQUID METALS; MOLYBDENUM; NIOBIUM; NUMERICAL METHODS; OXIDATION; OXIDATION RESISTANCE; TANTALUM; TUNGSTEN; ZIRCONIUM;

LEAD BISMUTH EUTECTIC SPALLATION TARGETS; LIQUID LEAD; SPALLATION; THICKNESS LOSS;

NEUTRON SOURCES;

EID: 0034174173     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-5493(99)00303-9     Document Type: Article

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