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The Nuclear Family: Empowering parents and caregivers
The Diversity and Inclusion in ANS Committee is hosting a webinar today to celebrate the contributions of parents in the nuclear industry while fostering diversity and inclusion within the community.
Register now: The webinar, from 1:00-2:00 pm ET, will highlight how the nuclear industry supports caregivers, new parents, and new mothers, and will focus on life transitions and parental responsibilities.
Yutuo Wang, Yintao Li, Zhengquan Zhang, Mengqing Xiao, Changwen Chen, Yuanlin Zhou, Shanqiang Wang
Nuclear Technology | Volume 210 | Number 3 | March 2024 | Pages 501-510
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2023.2232646
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Nuclear facilities generate large amounts of contaminated stainless steel metallic material during maintenance and decommissioning. As a new radioactive decontamination method, the self-brittle decontamination method has the advantages of fewer secondary contaminants and can be operated remotely mechanically. The addition of a certain amount of corrosive components to the self-brittlement composite decontaminant can achieve the dual function of self-brittlement and corrosion decontamination. The performance of the decontaminant was investigated by single-factor experiments using electrochemical tests, morphological observations, and weight loss tests. The results show that the decontaminant has good self-embrittlement. When the concentration of HCl is 2.50 mol/L, HNO3 is 3.50 mol/L, NaCl is 0.10 mol/L, and FeCl3 is 0.15 mol/L, the decontaminant is formulated to have the best corrosion and decontamination effect on stainless steel. The detergent will produce a uniform corrosion layer on the surface of stainless steel, and the average corrosion depth can reach 8.3268 μm.