Corrosion behavior of alloy 22 and Ti Grade 7 in a nuclear waste repository environment

Corrosion

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 764-777

  Hua, F ^a   Gordon, G ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alloy 22; Apparent activation energy; Basic saturted water; Crevice corrosion; General corrosion; High level nuclear waste; Ti Grade 7; Yucca Mountain Project

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; CORROSION RESISTANCE; DETERIORATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; TITANIUM ALLOYS;

ALLOY 22; DRIP SHIELD; NUCLEAR WASTE REPOSITORY;

CORROSION;

ALLOY; CORROSION RATE; CORROSION RESISTANCE; CREVICE CORROSION; NUCLEAR APPLICATION;

EID: 5044238044     PISSN: 00109312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5006/1.3287856     Document Type: Article

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