Corrosion behaviors of UNS N06690TT and N08800SN in simulated pressurized water reactor (PWR) primary water containing three concentrations of dissolved oxygen (DO) was studied by open-circuit potential (OCP), electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). These results have shown that DO in simulated PWR primary water produces a strong effect on Cr dissolution. At DO < 0.01 ppm, the electrochemical impedance of N06690TT at low frequency gradually increases and becomes larger than that of N08800SN, and N06690TT shows slightly better corrosion resistance than N08800SN. At DO ≥ 0.1 ppm, the electrochemical impedance of N06690TT at low frequency rapidly decreases and becomes lower than that of N08800SN with the increase of immersion time; N08800SN shows much better corrosion resistance than N06690TT. The spinel oxides NiFe2O4 or Fe3O4 can form in the inner oxide layer on N08800SN due to relatively balanced ratio of Fe, Ni, which leads to the relatively stable corrosion resistance. Therefore, when DO in PWR primary water is 0.1 ppm or more, it is more suitable to choose N08800SN rather than N06690TT as the steam generator (SG) tubing materials.

In this study, an electrochemical hydrogen permeation experiment was used to determine the diffusion parameters, and a hydrogen microprint test was used to visualize the distribution of hydrogen in X65 pipeline steel with different levels of cold deformation. The hydrogen permeation curves show that both hydrogen permeation current density and effective hydrogen diffusion coefficient decrease with increasing cold deformation. The density of reversible and irreversible hydrogen traps is calculated from the permeation parameters, and it is found that the amount of both traps increases with increasing deformation, especially a significant increase in reversible hydrogen traps, which is in agreement with the results measured by thermal desorption spectroscopy. Hydrogen microprint test results indicate that the degree of hydrogen aggregation on the specimen surface increases with increasing cold deformation, especially at phase and grain boundaries. In addition, the dislocation configuration after cold deformation was further investigated by transmission electron microscopy.