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The American Nuclear Society is now accepting applications for knowledge managers to work during the 2024 Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo. This year’s UWC, “Nuclear Momentum: Advancing Our Clean Energy Future,” will be held August 4–7, 2024, at the JW Marriott Marco Island Beach Resort on Marco Island, Fla.=
David F. Mclaughlin, Charles E. Sessions, John E. Marra
Nuclear Technology | Volume 99 | Number 2 | August 1992 | Pages 242-251
Technical Paper | Enrichment and Reprocessing System | doi.org/10.13182/NT92-A34694
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Corrosion studies are described in a molten calcium chloride environment sparged with chlorine gas at 850°C, both in the melt and in the gas phase above the salt, in support of efforts at Westinghouse Savannah River Company to develop more resistant materials of construction for molten salt processing of plutonium. Corrosion rates and electron microscope analyses are reported for Inconel alloys 601 and 617, tantalum, tungsten, magnesium oxide, and silicon nitride. Silicon nitride exhibited the greatest resistance, showing <0.1 mg/cm2·h loss in both melt and vapor. None of the metallic coupons withstood the chlorine vapor environment, although Inconel indicated resistance immersed in the melt if protected from chlorine gas.