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Accident-Tolerant Barriers for Fuel Road Cladding of CANDU Nuclear Reactor. |
| المؤلفون: |
Diniasi, Diana, Fulger, Manuela, Butoi, Bogdan, Dinca, Paul Pavel, Golgovici, Florentina |
| المصدر: |
Coatings (2079-6412); Oct2023, Vol. 13 Issue 10, p1739, 17p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
CANDU reactors, NUCLEAR reactors, GUARDRAILS on roads, ELECTRON beams, PHYSICAL vapor deposition, OXIDATION kinetics, GRAVIMETRIC analysis |
| مستخلص: |
The nuclear industry is focusing some efforts on increasing the operational safety of current nuclear reactors and improving the safety of future types of reactors. In this context, the paper is focused on testing and evaluating the corrosion behavior of a thin chromium coating, deposited by Electron Beam Physical Vapor Deposition on Zy-4. After autoclaving under primary circuit conditions, the Cr-coated Zy-4 samples were characterized by gravimetric analysis, optical microscopy, SEM with EDX, and XRD. The investigation of the corrosion behavior was carried out by applying three electrochemical methods: potentiodynamic measurements, EIS, and OCP variation. A plateau appears on the weight gain evolution, and the oxidation kinetics generate a cubic oxidation law, both of which indicate a stabilization of the corrosion. By optical microscopy, it was observed a relatively uniform distribution of hydrides along the samples, in the horizontal direction. By SEM investigations it was observed that after the autoclaving period, the coatings with thickness from 2 to 3 µm are still adherent and maintain integrity. The XRD diffractograms showed a high degree of crystallinity with the intensity of chromium peaks higher than the intensity of zirconium peaks. Electrochemical results indicate better corrosion behavior after 3024 h of autoclaving. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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