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June 3, 2007
Unique irradiation and corrosion experiment to aid future nuclear power developments
MST-8’s Stuart Maloy and Richard Greco and MPA-10’s Peter Hosemann and Ning Li and have assembled a new experiment called ICE (Irradiation and Corrosion Experiment). This one-of-a-kind experiment studies the effects of radiation damage on the corrosion of steel in contact with a lead bismuth eutectic at 350-450C°.
In this experiment, high energy protons (5 MeV) accelerate through a thin (~40 microns thick) ferritic/martensitic steel sample. Molten lead-bismuth eutectic flows on the other side of the sample allowing for a measurement of corrosion while under intense irradiation damage from the proton beam. This work is of interest to future developments in nuclear power (e.g. lead-cooled fast reactors) and to the generation of neutrons with liquid metal targets by spallation.
The project is funded by the Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative/Global Nuclear Energy Partnership in DOE-NE.
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