Corrosion behavior of cold-worked austenitic stainless steels in liquid lead–bismuth eutectic

Long term corrosion resistance of alumina forming austenitic stainless steels in liquid lead

“…Previous studies in the literature [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] have shown similar behavior in LBE for the same type of alloys and test conditions, and thus the presented results were expected. Although both alloys were attacked by liquid lead, the magnitudes of the attacks were different.…”

“…The predominant issue when designing LFR systems is the choice of corrosion resistant steels [5,6]. Liquid lead and lead bismuth eutectic (LBE) attacks structural steels, such as AISI 316L and 15-15 Ti at temperatures in excess of 500°C, thus limiting the operation temperature of the reactor [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. Alumina forming FeCrAl alloys have been proposed as a promising solution, both as bulk steels [5,[16][17][18][19][20][21][22] and more recently through surface alloying [8,23,24].…”

Radioactive Wastes

“…The effect of cold working on the corrosion behavior of austenitic stainless steels in liquid leadbismuth eutectic (LBE) was studied to develop acceleratordriven systems for the transmutation of long-lived radioactive wastes and lead-bismuth cooled fast reactors by Kurata (2014). Corrosion tests on solution-treated, 20%…”

Oxide scale formation on 316L and FeCrAl steels exposed to oxygen controlled static LBE at temperatures up to 800 °C

“…Despite the excellent heat transport properties, the difficulty with utilizing LBE as a liquid can be found in the interaction with common structural material, namely steels. A significant amount of research has been published involving a large number of steels [4][5][6][7][8] at moderate temperatures, and a few up to 750°C [9]. While the large amount of work performed prior clearly deserves a comprehensive review this is not the purpose of this paper, instead our aim was to push the upper limit in temperature and evaluate other materials than investigated previously [10,11].…”