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Mcc Corrosion Tests at Reference Testing Conditions for A27 Cast steel in Hanford Ground Water

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

M.D. Merz ,
F. Gerber  and
R. Wang
M.D. Merz
Affiliation:
Pacific Northwest Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, Richland, WA 99352
F. Gerber
Affiliation:
Pacific Northwest Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, Richland, WA 99352
R. Wang
Affiliation:
Flow Industries, Inc., 21214 68th Ave. S., Kent, WA 98032
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Abstract

The Materials Characterization Center (MCC) at Pacific Northwest Lab- oratory is performing three kinds of corrosion tests for the Basalt Waste Isolation Project (BWIP) to establish the interlaboratory reproducibility and uncertainty of corrosion rates of container materials for high-level nuclear waste. The three types of corrosion tests were selected to address two distinct conditions that are expected in a repository constructed in basalt. An air/steam test is designed to address corrosion during the operational period and static pressure vessel and flowby tests are designed to address corrosion under conditions that bound the condi ring the post-closure period of the repository.

The results of tests at reference testing conditions, which were defined to facilitate interlaboratory comparison of data, are presented. Data are reported for the BWIP/MCC-105.5 Air/Steam Test, BWIP/MCC-105.1 Static Pressure Vessel, and BWIP/MC-105.4 Flowby Test. In those cases where data are available from a second laboratory, a statistical analysis of interlaboratory results is reported and expected confidence intervals for mean corrosion rates are given. Other statistical treatment of data include analyses of the effects of vessel-to-vessel variations, test capsule variations for the flowby test, and oven-to-oven variations for air/steam tests.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 84: Symposium L – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management X , 1986 , 215
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1987

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