Oxide characteristics and corrosion and hydrogen uptake in Zr-2.5 Nb CANDU pressure tubes

ASTM Special Technical Publication

Volumn 1295, Issue , 1996, Pages 265-291

  Warr, B D ^a   Van Der Heide, P A W ^b   Maguire, M A ^c  

^a ONTARIO HYDRO TECHNOLOGIES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c ATOMIC ENERGY OF CANADA LIMITED   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbon dating; Characterization; Corrosion; Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS); Hydrogen uptake; Infinite velocity (IV); Secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS); Zr 2.5 Nb oxide

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION EFFECTS; CORROSION; DEUTERIUM; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); OXIDES; PRESSURE TUBE REACTORS; REACTION KINETICS; SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

BULK ALLOY DEUTERIUM CONTENTS; CARBON DATING METHODS; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY (EIS); HYDROGEN UPTAKE; METAL OXIDE INTERFACE; OXIDE GROWTH KINETICS;

ZIRCONIUM ALLOYS;

EID: 0343254812     PISSN: 00660558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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