SRS corrosion surveillance programme

A large database on corrosion of aluminium clad materials has been generated from the CRP and the SRS corrosion surveillance programme. An evaluation of these data indicates that the most important factors contributing to the corrosion of the aluminium are ... 

The corrosion surveillance programme at SRS was established in 1992 to monitor production fuel in on-site spent fuel storage basins [1.7].This extensive... 

The corrosion surveillance programme at SRS, established in 1992, was initiated at a time when corrosion of fuel cladding and aluminium components became evident for the first time. Detailed discussions of the surveillance activities have been presented in Ref. [1.9]. The programme was initially set up to monitor the production fuel and target material from the last irradiation campaigns in the P, K and L Reactors at SRS. The programme was expanded to include the RBOF, in which all the fuel received from off-site locations around the world was stored. 

Samples of the RBOF water will continue to be analysed on a periodic basis as fuel comes in for interim storage from the FRR sites. This will allow SRS to develop a database on the diversity of the microbiological activity at the different research reactor sites. Corrosion of the spent fuel initiated by any mechanism will continue to be monitored in all basins at SRS through the corrosion surveillance programme. 

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