The EPMA, LA-ICP-MS and ICP-OES study of corrosion of structural materials for a nuclear reactor cooling circuit by molten fluoride salt treatment

• Authors: VACULOVIČ Tomáš; MACHÁT Jiří; OTRUBA Vítězslav; KANICKÝ Viktor; MATAL Oldřich; ŠIMO Tomáš; GUENTHER Detlef; LATKOCZY Christopher; SULOVSKÝ Petr
• Year of publication: 2009
• Type: Article in Periodical
• Magazine / Source: JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL ATOMIC SPECTROMETRY
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Science
• Field: Analytic chemistry
• Keywords: laser ablation; ICP-MS; molten fluoride salts; EPMA
• Description: Electron probe microanalysis (EPMA), inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-OES), and laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) were applied to study the interaction of molten LiF-NaF salt mixtures with candidate structural materials (alloys) for a nuclear reactor-transmutor cooling circuit.

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