RADIATION PROTECTION ›› 2021, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (4): 302-308.

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Research of oxide film properties of AP1000 primary loop

CUI Yujie1, WU Mingliang1, ZHANG Yi2, NIU Qiang2, WANG Yongxian1, GUO Lixiao1, ZHAO Wei1, CUI Anxi   

  1. 1. China Institute for Radiation Protection, Taiyuan 030006;
    2. Shandong Nuclear Power Co. Ltd., Shandong Yantai 265116
  • Received:2020-04-25 Online:2021-07-20 Published:2021-09-23

Abstract: The difference between AP1000 and other general PWRs is that its primary loop adopts zinc in-jection and hydrogenation technology, which changes the characteristics of oxide film in the pri-mary loop. The experiment simulates water chemistry condition of AP1000 primary loop in auto-clave to study the characteristics of the oxide film formed on the surface of the three main reactor process equipment materials of F304L, F316, and 690. The results show that the oxide film is a bilayer structure, and the outer oxide film components are mainly Fe2O3 and Fe3O4. The inner oxide film of F304L and F316 stainless steel is mainly ZnCr2O4, and the injected Zn element replaces the iron element in FeCr2O4 to form a dense ZnCr2O4 oxide layer. A small amount of ZnO and ZnFe2O4 is present in the inner oxide film. The inner oxide film of 690 alloy is ZnCr2O4, with high content of ZnO and ZnFe2O4. Unlike F304L, F316, the oxide film of the 690 alloy contains a small amount of divalent nickel in the form of NiFe2O4 and NiCr2O4. The addition of zinc and hydrogen makes the oxide film denser and sig-nificantly thinner.

Key words: AP1000, zinc addition, hydrogenation, oxide film

CLC Number: 

  • TL944