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This article describes the corrosion behavior of special austenitic alloys for waste management applications. The special stainless steels have controlled levels of alloying and impurity elements and inclusion levels. It is shown that “active” inclusions and segregation of chromium along flow lines accelerated IGC of nonsensitized stainless steels. Concentration of Cr+6 ions in the grooves of dissolved inclusions increased the potential to the transpassive region of the material, leading to accelerated attack. It is shown that a combination of cold working and controlled solution annealing resulted in a microstructure that resisted corrosion even after a sensitization heat treatment. This imparted extra resistance to corrosion by increasing the fraction of “random” grain boundaries above a threshold value. Randomization of grain boundaries made the stainless steels resistant to sensitization, IGC, and intergranular stress corrosion cracking (IGSCC) in even hot chloride environments. The increased corrosion resistance has been attributed to connectivity of random grain boundaries. The reaction mechanism between the molten glass and the material for process pot, alloy 690, during the vitrification process has been shown to result in depletion of chromium from the reacting surfaces. A comparison is drawn between the electrochemical behavior of alloys 33 and 22 in 1 M HCl at 65 °C. It is shown that a secondary phase formed during welding of alloy 33 impaired corrosion properties in the HCl environment.
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This article is based on a presentation made in the symposium “Effect of Processing on Materials Properties for Nuclear Waste Disposition,” November 10–11, 2003, at the TMS Fall meeting in Chicago, Illinois, under the joint auspices of the TMS Corrosion and Environmental Effects and Nuclear Materials Committees.
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Kain, V., Sengupta, P., De, P.K. et al. Case reviews on the effect of microstructure on the corrosion behavior of austenitic alloys for processing and storage of nuclear waste. Metall Mater Trans A 36, 1075–1084 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-005-0201-5
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