Corrosion and Wear Handbook for Water Cooled Reactors

Supercritical Water-cooled Nuclear Reactors: Review and Status

Modern concepts of nuclear reactors cooled with supercritical water are presented together with a short history. The supercritical water-cooled CANDU ((CANada Deuterium Uranium) is a registered trademark of AECL) reactor concept is fully discussed. Also, thermophysical properties at critical and supercritical pressures as well as heat transfer and hydraulic resistance at these conditions are pr...

Mitigation of hydrogen hazards in water cooled power reactors

Erosion-corrosion and wear

The basic processes of wear, erosion and erosion-corrosion are reviewed. It is shown that oxide debris can accelerate wear when it is present as particulates, or protect and reduce friction when it is present as a glaze. Erosion-corrosion processes can be understood and organized in a series of regimes that represent a sequence of change in the relative intensities of erosive and corrosive proc...

High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactors

Irradiated Assisted Corrosion of Stainless Steel in Light Water Reactors – Focus on Radiolysis and Corrosion Damage