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Evaluation of The Long-Term Stability of Passive Corrosion On The Drip Shield and Waste Package Under Yucca Mountain Conditions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2011

D.W. Shoesmith
D.W. Shoesmith*
Affiliation:
Department of ChemistryUniversity of Western Ontario London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada
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Abstract

Possible long term corrosion scenarios for the engineered barriers proposed for the Yucca Mountain (Nevada, USA) repository are reviewed.

Introduction:

The materials proposed for the engineered barriers in the Yucca Mountain repository (Nevada, USA), Alloy-22 for the waste packages (WP) and titanium Grade-7 (Ti-7) for the drip shield (DS), appear unlikely to suffer localized corrosion (LC) and have very low passive corrosion (PC) rates (1–3). Since environmental conditions will become more benign as temperatures decline and aqueous environments become more dilute (4), this leads to the prediction of exceedingly long waste package lifetimes. In this review, possible corrosion scenarios are discussed in the context of the anticipated evolution in the repository environment.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 713: Symposium JJ – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XXV , 2002 , JJ1.8
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2002

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