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Westinghouse teams with Nordion and PSEG to produce Co-60 at Salem
Westinghouse Electric Company, Nordion, and PSEG Nuclear announced on Tuesday the signing of long-term agreements to establish the first commercial-scale production of cobalt-60 in a U.S. nuclear reactor. Under the agreements, the companies are to apply newly developed production technology for pressurized water reactors to produce Co-60 at PSEG’s Salem nuclear power plant in New Jersey.
Wenxing Xia, Li Yang, Kun Zhang, Pingni He, Lei Shu, Lei Han, Xiaochun Ma, Zhiyan Zhang, Zhi Cao, F. Gou
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 75 | Number 2 | February 2019 | Pages 104-111
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2018.1533618
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The corrosion behaviors of 316L stainless steel welds in stagnant liquid lithium and lithium with 0.2%H at 325°C for 1000 h was investigated by using weight loss method, scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, and laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy. After liquid Li corrosion, a large number of (M)23C6 and NiCx particles (sizes of 1 ~ 2 μm) were found on the weld surface, while almost no such particles were found on the weld surface after corrosion in liquid Li with 0.2%H. The corrosion rates of welds were about 4.10 × 10−3 and 6.65 × 10−3 g · m−2 · h−1 in liquid Li and Li with 0.2%H, respectively, while the penetration depth of Li increased by 1.375 times after adding 0.2%H to Li. It was found that the penetration depth of Li was basically consistent with the dissolution depth of Cr, and the dissolution depth of Cr was larger than that of Ni and Fe in liquid Li and Li with 0.2%H.