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-ray irradiated neutral water conditionYamamoto, Masahiro; Komatsu, Atsushi; Sato, Tomonori; Nakano, Junichi; Ueno, Fumiyoshi
Proceedings of 17th Asian Pacific Corrosion Control Conference (APCCC-17) (USB Flash Drive), 8 Pages, 2016/01
In Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, decommissioning procedures are continuing more than 30 years until fuel debris removal. It is important to keep soundness of primary container vessel (PCV), made of carbon steel, during these procedures. Corrosion of carbon steel is well-known to be controlled by cathodic reaction, in usual, oxygen reduction reaction. Corrosion of carbon steel could be mitigated by nitrogen injection procedure. However, a lot of radioactive materials exist in cooling water, an effect of radiolysis product on corrosion is an important problem. Clarifying an irradiation effect for corrosion of carbon steel, corrosion test was conducted in 
Co -ray irradiated condition. Electrochemical measurements were conducted to determine cathodic current density of samples. Corrosion rates of carbon steel decrease with time in both -ray irradiated and non-irradiated conditions. Measured values of cathodic current density gradually decreased with time and then stayed at constant value.
Soma, Yasutaka; Kato, Chiaki; Ueno, Fumiyoshi
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Stress corrosion cracking (SCC) on stainless steels have been recognized as one of the most important corrosion-related failure in light water reactors. Many researches have been pointed out that the SCC advances under altered solution chemistry condition at the crack tip region compared to the bulk pure water. However, little works have been done to clarify degree of the alteration as function of bulk water condition, geometrical factor, and time. In this work, we carried out in-situ measurement of solution electrical conductivity within crevice of stainless steels. To create crevice specimen, a couple of stainless steel plate was fixed with bolts and nuts. Small sensors were imbedded into the crevice plate at three different positions with different crevice gaps. The crevice specimen with sensors was exposed to 288
C water with pressure of 8 MPa, dissolved oxygen concentration of 32 ppm. The solution electrical conductivity at the crevice gap of 6e-5 m was almost same to that of bulk pure water. At the crevice position with 1e-5 m gap, the maximum conductivity value was nearly 1000 times higher than that of bulk water and that is equivalent to decrease in pH of 3 from the neutral value. This indicates, if the crevice gap was narrow enough, local acidification occurred at the tip of the crevice.