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The Corrosion Behavior of Iron and Aluminum Under Waste Disposal Conditions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2012

R. Fujisawa ,
T. Cho ,
K. Sugahara ,
Y. Takizawa ,
Y. Horikawa ,
T. Shiomi  and
M. Hironaga
R. Fujisawa
Affiliation:
Mitsubishi Materials Co., Central Research Institute, Saitama, Japan
T. Cho
Affiliation:
Mitsubishi Materials Co., Central Research Institute, Saitama, Japan
K. Sugahara
Affiliation:
Mitsubishi Materials Co., Central Research Institute, Saitama, Japan
Y. Takizawa
Affiliation:
Mitsubishi Materials Co., Central Research Institute, Saitama, Japan
Y. Horikawa
Affiliation:
Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc., Osaka, Japan
T. Shiomi
Affiliation:
Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc., Osaka, Japan
M. Hironaga
Affiliation:
Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Chiba, Japan
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Abstract

The generation of hydrogen gas from metallic waste in corrosive disposal environment is an important issue for the safety analysis of low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities in Japan. In particular iron and aluminum are the possibly important elements regarding the gas generation. However, the corrosion behavior of these metals has not been sufficiently investigated under the highly alkaline non-oxidizing disposal conditions yet.

We studied the corrosion behavior of iron and aluminum under simulated disposal environments. The quantity of hydrogen gas generated from iron was measured in a closed cell under highly alkaline non-oxidizing conditions. The observed corrosion rate of iron in the initial period of immersion was 4 nm/year at 15 °C, 20 nm/year at 30 °C, and 200 nm/year at 45 °C. The activation energy was found to be 100 kJ/mol from Arrhenius plotting of the above corrosion rates.

The corrosion behavior of aluminum was studied under an environment simulating conditions in which aluminum was solidified with mortar. In the initial period aluminum corroded rapidly with a corrosion rate of 20 mm/year. However, the corrosion rate decreased with time, and after 1,000 hours the rate reached 0.001 to 0.01 mm/year.

Thus we obtained data on hydrogen gas generation from iron and aluminum under the disposal environment relevant to the safety analysis of low-level radioactive disposal facilities in Japan.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 465: Symposium II – Scienfific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XX , 1996 , 675
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1997

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