Abstract
For the establishment of liquid tritium breeding concepts, static lithium-lead corrosion tests for single-layer erbium oxide coatings and erbium oxide-metal multi-layer coatings were carried out, followed by deuterium permeation measurements. Grain boundary corrosion of erbium oxide coatings was confirmed by the static immersion tests at 550 and 600 °C. An erbium oxide-iron two-layer coating sustained its structure after lithium-lead immersion at 600 °C for up to 3000 h. The results of gas-driven deuterium permeation measurements for multi-layer coatings immersed at 550 and 600 °C indicated that crystallization and grain growth of erbium oxide would sufficiently occur during the immersion at 600 °C, and then the sample showed lower permeabilities in the first measurements at lower temperature. On the other hand, permeation reduction factors of the sample immersed at 550 °C were estimated to be 100‒200 in the temperature range of 400‒550 °C. A corrosion layer formed on the coating surface might work as an additional diffusion barrier after the permeation test at 600 °C.
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