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Smarter waste strategies: Helping deliver on the promise of advanced nuclear
At COP28, held in Dubai in 2023, a clear consensus emerged: Nuclear energy must be a cornerstone of the global clean energy transition. With electricity demand projected to soar as we decarbonize not just power but also industry, transport, and heat, the case for new nuclear is compelling. More than 20 countries committed to tripling global nuclear capacity by 2050. In the United States alone, the Department of Energy forecasts that the country’s current nuclear capacity could more than triple, adding 200 GW of new nuclear to the existing 95 GW by mid-century.
M. Kowaka, H. Nagano, T. Kudo, Y. Okada, M. Yagi, O. Takaba, T. Yonezawa, K. Arioka
Nuclear Technology | Volume 55 | Number 2 | November 1981 | Pages 394-404
Technical Paper | Materials | doi.org/10.13182/NT55-394
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It was shown that a modified Huey test, i.e., a 24-h immersion in boiling 40% HNO3, is able to exactly detect the susceptibility to intergranular corrosion of Alloy 600, which is correlated with intergranular stress corrosion cracking (IGSCC) behavior in high temperature water containing small amounts of chloride ions. Chromium content at the regions adjacent to grain boundaries in sensitized Alloy 600 was analyzed as ∼3% by the measurement of magnetic susceptibility. Heat treating Alloy 600 at low temperatures, e.g., at 700°C for 15 h, improves the IGSCC resistance to both high temperature water and caustic solutions by constructing suitable micro structures resistant to sensitization, in which chromium carbides precipitate predominantly in the matrix instead of grain boundaries.
