There are a numbers of paper dedicated to models and mechanisms of EAC;
new approaches and modifications of previous ideas are described
elsewhere (Huang, 2011; Peng et al., 2012; Seifert et al., 2008;
Seifert and Ritter, 2009).
In the case of boiling water reactors, the usage of hydrogen
water chemistry (HWC) has been verified as a powerful method for
mitigating EAC of SSs and Ni-base alloy internals.HWC resulted in a
significant drop in low-frequency corrosion fatigue crack growth
rates by at least one order of magnitude with respect to normal
water chemistry (NWC) conditions for pressure vessel steels with
sulphur content lower than 0.02 wt % (Ritter and Seifert, 2007).