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The effects of a lithium-ferritic film on slowing down corrosion cracking of heat-exchange tubes of steam generator at nuclear power plants with VVER reactors

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The effect of the technological regime of micrometering LiOH on corrosion cracking of austenitic stainless steels used in a nuclear power plant with VVER reactors is experimentally assessed.

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Original Russian Text © S.O. Ivanov, V.P. Gorbatykh, 2007, published in Teploenergetika.

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Ivanov, S.O., Gorbatykh, V.P. The effects of a lithium-ferritic film on slowing down corrosion cracking of heat-exchange tubes of steam generator at nuclear power plants with VVER reactors. Therm. Eng. 54, 332–335 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0040601507040155

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