Waste package design and container materials evaluation for the Yucca Mountain repository

NACE - International Corrosion Conference Series

Volumn 1998-March, Issue , 1998, Pages

  McCright, R Daniel ^a   Clarke, Willis L ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon steel; Crevice corrosion; Galvanic effects; General corrosion; Geologic repository; Nickel base alloys; Nuclear waste; Pitting corrosion

Indexed keywords

CARBON STEEL; CHROMIUM ALLOYS; CONTAINERS; CORROSION RATE; CORROSION RESISTANCE; CREVICE CORROSION; GALVANIC CORROSION; GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES; LOCALIZED CORROSION; MOLYBDENUM ALLOYS; NICKEL ALLOYS; NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING; PITTING; RADIOACTIVE WASTE ENCAPSULATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SOFTWARE TESTING; STEEL CORROSION; TERNARY ALLOYS; TESTING;

GALVANIC EFFECT; GENERAL CORROSION; GEOLOGIC REPOSITORY; LONG TERM PERFORMANCE; NICKEL BASE ALLOYS; WASTE PACKAGE DESIGN; YUCCA MOUNTAIN , NEVADA; YUCCA MOUNTAIN REPOSITORY;

RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE;

EID: 85039569592     PISSN: 03614409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (12)

1. "Reference Design Description for a Geologic Repository", USDOE Civilian Radioactive Waste Management System, TRW Environmental Safety Systems report B00000O00-1717-5707-00002, rev. 0, June 1997.
2. Near Field and Altered Zone Environment Report, vol. 1, Technical Basis for EBS Design, rev. 1, W. G. Wilder, Lawrence Livermore Report UCRL-LR-124998, August 1997
3. "Engineered Materials Characterization Report", R. A. Van Konynenburg, R. D. McCright, A. K. Roy, and D. A. Jones, Lawrence Livermore Report UCRL-ID-119564, August 1995 In addition, other papers presented in this symposium are cited:
4. "Long Term Corrosion Study of Waste Package Candidate Materials for the YMP. Initial Results", F. Wang, G. Gdowski, and J. Estill, paper 98161
5. "Humid Air Corrosion of Candidate Materials for the YMP Waste Package", G.. Gdowski, paper 98151
6. "Repassivation Potential for Localized Corrosion of Alloys 625 and C-22 in Simulated Repository Environments", K. Grass, D. Dunn, G. Cragnolino, and N. Sridhar, paper 98149
7. "Effect of Galvanic Coupling between Overpack Materials of High Level Nuclear Waste Containers", D. Dunn, G. Cragnolino, and N. Sridhar, paper 98148
8. "Galvanic Corrosion Study of Container Materials using a Zero Resistance Ammeter", A. Roy, D. Fleming, and B. Lum, paper 98156
9. "MIC Evaluation and Testing for the Yucca Mountain Repository", J. Horn, D. Jones, and T. Lian, paper 98152
10. "Stress Corrosion Cracking of Fe-Ni-Cr-Mo, Ni-Cr-Mo, and Ti Alloys in 90 C, Acidic Brine", A. Roy, D. Fleming, and B. Lum, paper 98157
11. "Electrochemically Based Models for Predicting the Performance of Waste Package Container Materials in Yucca Mountain", J. Farmer and D. McCright, paper 98160
12. "Localized Corrosion Susceptibility of High Nickel Alloys as Candidate Materials for Nuclear Waste Repository. Effect of Alloy Aging at 427 C for up to 40, 000 Hours", R. B. Rebak, paper 98153