Corrosion Behavior of Medium Carbon Steel in Simulated Concentrated Yucca Mountain Waters
Medium carbon steel (MCS) is the candidate material for rock bolts to reinforce the borehole liners and emplacement drifts of the proposed Yucca Mountain (YM) high-level nuclear waste repository. Corrosion performance of this structural steel -AISI 1040- was investigated by techniques such as linear polarization, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), and laboratory immersion tests in lab simulated concentrated YM ground waters. Corrosion rates of the steel were determined for the temperatures in the range from 25 C to 85 C, for the ionic concentrations of 1 time (1x), 10 times (10x), and hundred times (100x) ground waters. The MCS corroded uniformly at the penetration rates of 35-200 {micro}m/year in the de-aerated YM waters, and 200-1000 {micro}m/year in the aerated waters. Increasing temperatures in the de-aerated waters increased the corrosion rates of the steel. However, increasing ionic concentrations influenced the corrosion rates only slightly. In the aerated 1x and 10x waters, increasing temperatures increased the rates of MCS significantly. Inhibitive precipitates, which formed in the aerated 100x waters at higher temperatures (65 C and up) decreased the corrosion rates to the values that obtained for the de-aerated YM aqueous environments. The steel suffered pitting corrosion in the both de-aerated and aerated hot YM environments after anodic polarization.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- OSTI ID:
- 15014089
- Report Number(s):
- UCRL-JRNL-203490; MMTAEB; TRN: US0801224
- Journal Information:
- Metallurgical and Materials Transactions. A, Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science, Journal Name: Metallurgical and Materials Transactions. A, Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science; ISSN 1073-5623
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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