General and Localized Corrosion of Borated Stainless Steels

Conference · Sun Mar 16 00:00:00 EDT 2008

OSTI ID:927633

Lister, T. E. ^[1]; Mizia, R. E. ^[1]; Erickson, A. W. ^[1]; Matteson, B. S. ^[1]

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1. Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)

The Transportation, Aging and Disposal (TAD) canister-based system is being proposed to transport and store spent nuclear fuel at the Monitored Geologic Repository (MGR) located at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The preliminary design of this system identifies borated stainless steel as the neutron absorber material that will be used to fabricate fuel basket inserts for nuclear criticality control. This paper discusses corrosion test results for verifying the performance of this material manufactured to the requirements of ASTM A887, Grade A, under the expected repository conditions.

• Research Organization: Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP)
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-99ID13727
• OSTI ID: 927633
• Report Number(s): INL/CON-07-13535
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
AGING
CORROSION
CRITICALITY
DESIGN
NEUTRON ABSORBERS
NUCLEAR FUELS
Ni-Cr-Mo-Gd alloy
ANA
Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP)
PERFORMANCE
SPENT FUELS
STAINLESS STEELS
TRANSPORT
YUCCA MOUNTAIN
Yucca Mountain
borated stainless steel
borated
stainless
Yucca Mountain
localized corrosion
neutron poison
secondary phase