By D. Feron, D. D. Macdonald

The deliberate length of isolation of excessive point nuclear waste from the ecosphere is nearly 10,000 years. For the final ten years programmes at the long term corrosion resistance of bins of such waste became more and more major to the overseas neighborhood. A workshop dedicated to this topic used to be organised via the ecu Federation of Corrosion and came about in Cadarache, France, in November 2001.

The lawsuits are coated within the 36 chapters of this quantity and comprise reviews from 8 diverse nations. those process the challenge not just by utilizing corrosion exams but additionally via the improvement of deterministic and empirical versions which are important to extrapolate the behaviour of candidate fabrics. One consultation used to be dedicated to an research of the long term corrosion of historic and archaeological artefacts, together with the recognized Delhi pillar, a amazing instance of the impact that 1600 years of atmospheric publicity could have on a ferrous steel.

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For the period 2000-2001, the laboratories contributing to the d e v e l o p m e n t of this p r o g r a m m e are: Containers & Overpacksfor High-Level Radioactive Waste: French Corrosion Programme 33 Corrosion of carbon steel in argillaceous mixtures: corrosion measurement and modelling: CEA-Saclay / SCCME. Corrosion of low-alloy or unalloyed steels in the presence of compacted clay: CEA-Cadarache / SAMRA. Limitation of corrosion by the flow of water in the geological environment: UPC (Universitat politecnica de Catalunya) Corrosion of carbon steel in an unsaturated clay material: EDF/R&D.

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