Abstract
Researchers from Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratories at the Idaho and the Savannah River Sites recovered and are analyzing part of a final set of stainless steel specimens buried by the National Bureau of Standards in 1070 at Site D, near Wildwood, NJ. Findings included estimates for 32-year corrosion rates, transport of corrosion product, and elucidation of the site’s hydrogeobiochemistry. An interdisciplinary research team unraveled the complicated interrelationships among metal integrity, corrosion rates, corrosion mechanisms, soil properties, soil microbiology, plant and animal interaction with corrosion products, and fate and transport of metallic ions. This research provides long-term corrosion and transport data that can reduce the uncertainty associated with long-term waste storage and improve fate and transport modeling predictions throughout the DOE complex. The research also provides improvements in several characterization techniques.
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