Welcome to the website of the European Cooperative Group on Corrosion Monitoring of Nuclear Materials – ECG-COMON!
The general objective of the European Cooperative Group on Corrosion Monitoring of Nuclear Materials (hereinafter called “the Group”) is to coordinate the European efforts on corrosion monitoring of nuclear materials in typical light water reactor (LWR) service, nuclear waste disposal, and other industrial environments in order to develop the fundamental understanding. More information about the Group can be found below and here.
Particular attention is focused on the following material systems and corrosion phenomena:
Materials
- LWR structural materials (stainless steels, Ni-base alloys, C & low-alloy steels used in, e.g., pressure vessels, piping & reactor internals),
- waste container materials for nuclear waste disposal,
- LWR fuel/cladding materials,
- steel reinforced concrete structures,
- materials used for new reactor concepts (supercrit. water, LLB, HTR, etc.).
Corrosion phenomena
- Environmentally-assisted cracking (stress corrosion cracking, corrosion fatigue, etc.),
- other localised corrosion (pitting, crevice and intergranular corrosion),
- general and flow-accelerated corrosion.
Methods
Concept
PSD calculation programme
A free electrochemical noise PSD calculation programme can be found here.
The support from PSI for setting up and running this website is gratefully acknowledged!
We are also thankful for the financial support from one of our long-term members for setting up this website!
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