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STAINLESS STEEL CORROSION IN<br />

LEAD-BISMUTH UNDER TEMPERATURE GRADIENT<br />

Dolores Gómez Briceño, Fco. Javier Martín Muñoz, Laura Soler Crespo,<br />

Federico Esteban Ochoa de Retana, Celia Torres Gurdiel<br />

<strong>Nuclear</strong> Fission Department, CIEMAT<br />

Av. Complutense 22, Madrid 28040, Spain<br />

Abstract<br />

Austenitic steels can be used in ADS in contact with liquid lead-bismuth at temperatures below 400ºC.<br />

At higher temperatures, martensitic steels are recommended. However, at long times, the interaction<br />

between structural material and eutectic leads to the dissolution of some elements of the steel in the<br />

liquid metal. In a non-isothermal loop, the material dissolution takes place at the hot leg and, due to<br />

mass transfer, deposition occurs at the cold leg. Formation of oxide layers on structural materials<br />

improves its performance. F82Hmod. and 2¼ Cr-Mo steels have been tested in a small natural<br />

convection loop built of austenitic steel (316L), which has been operating for 3 000 hours. During all<br />

the operation, a gas with 10 ppm oxygen content has been bubbling in the hot area. The obtained<br />

results show that an oxide layer is formed on the samples introduced in the loop at the beginning of the<br />

operation and this layer increases with time. However, the samples introduced at intermediate times<br />

are not protected by oxide layers and present different levels of attack.<br />

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