Control Strategies for a Purified Water System at a Nuclear Generating Station

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Control Strategies for a Purified Water System at a Nuclear Generating Station

Published By Kinectrics

Published September 2006
2 Page(s)

Corrosion of a stainless steel liner was detected in the irradiated fuel bay (IFB) at a nuclear generating station. IFB leakage due to corrosion cannot be tolerated because of the danger of radiological release into the environment. Large numbers of bacteria were found, and associated with sediments at the bottom of the IFB. Microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) may have played an important role in the corrosion process at this station because corrosion was occurring in locations distant from the welds, i.e. areas where there were unlikely to be crevices. Corrosion product analyses by Kinectrics revealed the presence of bacteria that have been implicated in the corrosion of stainless steels.