Molten salts iron-base alloys

Data on corrosion rates obtained in experiments with molten Li,Be,Th,U/F mixtures for the 304SS and 316SS at ORNL [38] as weU as later at NRC-KI [15] for the Russian made austenitic steels 12H18N10T and AP-164, agree well with each other. It is possible that a molten salt can be made adequately reducing to allow iron-base alloys to be used. This possibility must be pursued experimentally, because thermodynamic and kinetic data are not available to allow an analytical determination. 

The main interest in high temperature batteries such as lithium/iron sulfide, sodium/ sulfur, and sodium/nickel chloride is for electric vehicle applications due to their high specific power and energy possibilities. The replacement of the liquid lithium electrode with a solid LiAl alloy alleviated many of the safety concerns that plagued the other two systems, which are based on a liquid sodium electrode. In 1991, the United States Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC) selected the bipolar molten-salt LiAl/FeS2 battery to be developed as... 

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