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Statistically Designed Lead Corrosion Experiments for Nuclear Waste Disposal
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2011
Abstract
This paper describes galvanic corrosion studies of lead, a candidate matrix metal, coupled vith ASTM Grade-2 titanium, a candidate container-shell material, to determine the barrier-lifetime for a lead matrix container - one container concept considered in the Canadian Nuclear Fuel Waste Management Program. In these studies the fractional factorial statistical design of Box-Behnken was used to develop mathematical relationships between the independent variables and the corrosion rate of lead.
Using the mathematical expressions derived in this study, the additional barrier-lifetime that a 25-mm-thick lead layer could provide to a titanium container, which eventually perforates by corrosion, was calculated to be at least 3500 years.
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