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Diablo Canyon gets key state approval
Pacific Gas & Electric has announced that the California Coastal Commission, the state agency in charge of protecting California’s roughly 840 miles of coastline, unanimously voted to approve the Act Consistency Certification and Coastal Development Permit for Diablo Canyon, a critical step in the utility’s work to extend the life of the nuclear power plant.
Gustavo A. Cragnolino, Darrell S. Dunn, C. Sean Brossia, Yi-Ming Pan, Osvaldo Pensado, Lietai Yang
Nuclear Technology | Volume 148 | Number 2 | November 2004 | Pages 166-173
Technical Paper | High-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal | doi.org/10.13182/NT04-A3556
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The susceptibility to various forms of corrosion that could be experienced by the alloys considered by the U.S. Department of Energy for the waste package and drip shield, the principal components of the engineered barrier system for the proposed repository at Yucca Mountain, is evaluated on the basis of experimental studies conducted at the Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analyses. Environmental, metallurgical, and mechanical conditions for the occurrence of uniform corrosion, localized corrosion, and environmentally assisted cracking of Alloy 22 (58Ni-22Cr-13Mo-3W-4Fe), the preferred material for the outer container, and Titanium-Grade 7 (Ti-0.15 Pd), the alloy proposed for the drip shield, are reported.