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Reasons For Using Copper?

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kengineer

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Apr 19, 2002
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I'm looking for specific reasons as to why copper would be used for welding carbon steel. In this case piping of a nuclear power plant.
 
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They may be thinking in complete watertightness...yet the corrossion problem maybe too great. Really only continuously present sacrificial electrodes to both steel and copper should ensure this thing may work. I am not privy to the arcanes of nuclear piping...so, why not to ask the specifier?
 
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