Corrosion is a major service life limiting mechanism for both pressurized water reactors (PWRs) and boiling water reactors (BWRs). While most of the corrosion research emphasis in the nuclear corrosion community has been focused on environmentally-assisted cracking (EAC) of austenitic stainless steels and nickel-base alloys and weld metals, in particular stress corrosion cracking (SCC), there are other corrosion phenomena that seriously affect plant life extension that cannot be ignored. This paper presents three other important corrosion areas, i.e., general corrosion of the light water reactor (LWR) containments, flow-accelerated corrosion of carbon steel piping systems and the corrosion of buried piping.

Subject
Water, Materials, Piping, Nuclear power, Sand, Reactors, Containment, Leaks, Carbon steel pipes, Corrosion products, Carbon steel, Steam, Types of corrosion
Keywords:
light water reactors, containment, general corrosion, flow-accelerated corrosion, carbon steel, buried piping
© 2012 Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP). All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of AMPP. Positions and opinions advanced in this work are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of AMPP. Responsibility for the content of the work lies solely with the author(s).
2012
Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP)
You do not currently have access to this content.