This paper summarizes our efforts to assess corrosion related failure in stainless steel longterm
storage containers bearing plutonium oxides and electrorefining salts. Pitting corrosion of
the internal can wall is believed to occur when these salt particles deliquesce forming the
electrolyte necessary for corrosion-electrochemistry. Extrapolation of pit depths from coupon
studies using GEV statistics found that the probability of a through-wall corrosion pit is finite;
the maximum pit depth after 50 yrs. would be on the order of 1.7 mm where as the container
wall is only 1.6 mm thick. To assess susceptibility to environmental cracking fracture
toughness (J1C) experiments were used in conjunction with a J-integral diagram constructed
using the GE/EPRI method for linear elastic-plastic materials.