Nuclear power plants in the United States are designed to use water as the heat transfer agent between the nuclear fuel and the electric generating plant. The continuous exposure of the reactors' large metal surface area to this water, results in corrosion of the base metal and deposition of the corrosion products on other parts of the reactor system. The reactor system materials of construction have been chosen to minimize corrosion and thereby reduce the deposition of corrosion products on heat transfer surfaces. Therefore, chemical cleaning to improve heat transfer is not necessary as it may be in a conventional boiler.
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1979
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