Congratulations to Brianna Rector who has been awarded an Alexander Graham Bell Canadian Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral (NSERC-CGS-D).
Brianna’s research project focuses on the development of a corrosion model for carbon steel in used fuel containers, a key engineered barrier in Canada’s permanent disposal plan for used nuclear fuel. She aims to describe the controlling processes in the early stages of corrosion as a function of environmental conditions such as pH, temperature, oxygen content, and ionic strength. As part of this project, Brianna combines electrochemical tests and computer simulation to model the early stages of corrosion.