Abstract

AbstractInconel-690, a Cr-Ni-Fe-based “superalloy,” has become the material of choice for electrodes in joule-heated waste glass melters and is currently employed in the high-level nuclear waste vitrification systems at West Valley and DWPF, as well as in GTS Duratek's privatized M-Area mixed waste vitrification facility at Savannah River. Future applications of joule-heated vitrification technologies will necessitate an assessment of the limits of performance of this material under more demanding conditions than have been studied previously. In this work, Inconel 690 electrodes were tested in several simulated sodium-rich aluminosilicate waste glasses in wide ranges of AC current density, electrical waveform, temperature, and glass composition.

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