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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
Zongbiao Ye, Wenyao Yang, Lei Shu, Zhijun Wang, Qiancheng Liu, Qiang Yan, Jianjun Wei, Kun Zhang, Fujun Gou
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 76 | Number 2 | February 2020 | Pages 157-162
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2019.1704596
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The corrosion behavior of Type 316L stainless steel in stagnating liquid Li under an elevated-temperature environment was investigated using a scanning electron microscope and an energy dispersive X-ray detector and self-designed laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy. A nonuniform and cell-like branched structure separated by distinct boundaries was observed, and a porous and rugged corroded layer was formed on the surface of the substrate after 500 h exposing 350°C liquid Li. This showed that the intensity of the Cr element on the superficial corroded sample decreased significantly when the depth reached ~2.8 μm and then was gradually restored in the range of ~5.6 μm. Meanwhile, the intensity of the Li element revealed consistent reduction to zero at ~4.0 μm. This study disclosed element transfer and penetration along a depth in the corrosion process between the liquid lithium and steel matrix.