COMPATIBILITY OF LIQUID-METAL COOLANTS WITH STRUCTURAL MATERIALS

One of the main criteria of compatibility of liquid-metal coolant with structural material is their mutual solubility. The present article deals with the corrosion of a number of various possible structural materials in liquid sodium, lithium, lead and bismuth.

Authors: V. P. Krasin, E. V. Krylova, A. Yu. Muzychka

Direction: Chemical sciences

Keywords: Fast neutron reactor, thermonuclear reactor, liquid-metal coolant, equilibrium solubility, ternary compounds, corrosion resistance, corrosion effect

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