Surface phenomena, mass-transfer operations

The primary motivation for predicting the electrochemical properties of the coolant circuits of water-cooled nuclear power reactors has been that of explaining and predicting tenacious operating problems that include SCC and CF, mass transport of corrosion products and subsequent fouling of heat transfer surfaces, activity transport due to the movement of neutron-activated radionuclides from the core to out-of-core surfaces that are not shielded, and, in the case of PWRs, the axial offset anomaly (AOA). This latter phenomenon results from the deposition of boron... 

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