| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2024 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Materials and Chemistry for Molten Salt Systems
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| Presentation Title |
Novel In-situ and High-throughput Experimental Approaches to Study Molten Salt Corrosion Mechanisms in Extreme Environments |
| Author(s) |
Adrien Couet, Bonita Goh, Cole Evered, Junliang Liu, Kailee Buttice, Jagadeesh Sure, Karen Chen-Wiegart, Kumar Sridharan |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Adrien Couet |
| Abstract Scope |
Current alloys certified for application as Molten (halide) Salt Reactor structural materials contain significant Cr content, making them readily-corrodible in molten halide salt environments. It is therefore critical to discover alloys with corrosion resistance that exceed those of currently-certified alloys, which also possess the necessary mechanical properties and irradiation-resistance at reactor operating temperatures. However, the alloy development pace for molten salt technologies is inherently low due to the lack of consistent and reliable corrosion data in extreme environment. In this talk, novel experimental approaches to study molten salt corrosion in static and flow conditions, under proton irradiation, mechanical stresses, and various salt chemistries will be highlighted. In particular, high-throughput corrosion data acquisition in molten salt environments will be discussed, with the recent use of in-situ synchrotron radiation to enrich the corrosion data output. Coupled to machine learning informed data analytics, novel molten salt corrosion mechanisms interpretation can be discovered. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Environmental Effects, Machine Learning, Nuclear Materials |