Chemistry and corrosion in nuclear and conventional power system coolants

新不伦瑞克大学的核工程工业研究教席运行了15年，直到2008年，已经两次续签。在此期间，它在电厂冷却系统的化学和腐蚀方面的创新研究方面建立了坚实的国内和国际声誉。目前授予的合作研究和开发赠款是为了延长这些活动，但重点有所改变。因此，加拿大核工业通过与NSERC共同赞助这项研究的CANDU所有者小组，将资助工具从一个主要负责CANDU初级冷却剂系统管道腐蚀问题的委员会转移到他们更一般的研发领域。这项研究将寻求提高我们对构成发电厂冷却系统的材料--主要但不完全是核--腐蚀方式的理解，以及由此产生的腐蚀产物氧化物是如何在电路中传输的。可能的结果是减轻腐蚀以及随后出现的换热表面污垢和效率丧失、反应堆外部件上的放射性积聚等问题。

The Industrial Research Chair in Nuclear Engineering at the University of New Brunswick ran for 15 years until 2008, having been renewed twice. During that time it built a solid national and international reputation for innovative research into the chemistry and corrosion of cooling systems in power plants. The current award of a collaborative research and development grant is for an extension of those activities, but with a modified focus. Thus, the Canadian nuclear industry through the CANDU Owners Group, which along with NSERC sponsors the research, has moved the funding vehicle from a committee that is integrated primarily in the corrosion of piping in the CANDU primary coolant system to their more general R&D area. The research pursued will seek to improve our understanding of the way materials that make up the cooling systems of power plants - mostly, but not exclusively, nuclear - corrode and how the resulting corrosion product oxides are transported around the circuits. Methods to mitigate the corrosion and the subsequent problems of fouling and loss of efficiency of heat transfer surfaces, build-up of radioactivity on out-reactor components, etc., are likely outcomes.