Corrosion of Zircaloy-4 and its welds in nitric acid medium

Corrosion Science

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 3527-3538

  Ravi Shankar, A ^a   Raju, V R ^a   Narayana Rao, M ^a,b   Kamachi Mudali, U ^a   Khatak, H S ^a   Raj, Baldev ^a  

^a INDIRA GANDHI CENTRE FOR ATOMIC RESEARCH   (India)

^b NUCLEAR FUEL COMPLEX   (India)

Author keywords

A. Zirconium; Acid corrosion; B. Weight loss; C. Welding; SEM; XPS

Indexed keywords

ACID CORROSION; WEIGHT LOSS;

CORROSION; ELECTRON BEAM WELDING; NITRIC ACID; NUCLEAR FUELS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

ZIRCONIUM ALLOYS;

CORROSION; ELECTRON BEAM WELDING; NITRIC ACID; NUCLEAR FUELS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ZIRCONIUM ALLOYS;

EID: 34447555611     PISSN: 0010938X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.corsci.2007.03.029     Document Type: Article

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