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The Critical Condition for the Initiation of Localized Corrosion of Mild Steel Used for Nuclear Waste Package

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

Gen Nakayama  and
Mastsuna Akashi
Gen Nakayama
Affiliation:
Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. Research Institute 3–1–15 Toyosu, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135, Japan
Mastsuna Akashi
Affiliation:
Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. Research Institute 3–1–15 Toyosu, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135, Japan
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Abstract

The general corrosion rate of mild steel is so small in neutral water environments that adequately provided corrosion allowance can ensure the requirement of one thousand years’ integrity of geological disposal package of high-level nuclear wastes. In alkaline water environments, however, mild steels can passivate themselves and often undergo localized corrosion in much the same manner stainless steels do in neutral water environments. This paper describes a study of localized corrosion behavior of the mild steel conducted to assess the long-term performance of the disposal packages. The critical potentials for pitting and crevice corrosion and critical pH for general corrosion-to-passivity transition were determined for neutral and alkaline water environments. Effects of temperature, pH, and chloride and other anion concentrations on the critical potentials and the critical pH were discussed. The initiation and propagation behavior of crevice corrosion was also analyzed under potentiostatic conditions.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 212: Symposium P – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XIV , 1990 , 279
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1991

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