Specification for mild steel refuse storage containers

1956 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mild Steel ◽  
Storage Containers

The Effects of Carbonate-Bicarbonate Concentration on Empirical Corrosion Diagram of Mild Steel as a Material of Geological Disposal Package for High Level Nuclear Wastes

1996 ◽  
Vol 451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guen Nakayama ◽  
Yuichi Fukaya ◽  
Masatsune Akashi
Keyword(s):  
Mild Steel ◽  
Human Life ◽  
General Corrosion ◽  
Nuclear Wastes ◽  
Bicarbonate Concentration ◽  
Sulfate Ions ◽  
Geological Disposal ◽  
Groundwater Environment ◽  
High Level ◽  
Corrosion Diagram

ABSTRACTIn the scheme for geological disposal of high level radioactive nuclear wastes, the burial pit is to be isolated from the sphere of human life by a multiple-barrier system, which consists of an artificial barrier, composed of a canister, an overpack and a bentonite cushioning layer, and a natural barrier, which is essentially the bedrock. As the greatest as well as essentially the sole detriment to its integrity would be corrosion by groundwater. The groundwater comes to it seeping through the bentonite zone, thereby attaining conceivably the pH of transition from general corrosion to passivity, pHd, the behaviors of mild steel in such a groundwater environment have been examined. It has been shown that the pHd is lowered (enlargement of the passivity domain) with rising temperature and carbonate-bicarbonate concentration, while it is raised (enlargement of the general corrosion region) with increasing concentrations of chloride and sulfate ions.

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