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To understand cobalt deposition on 304 stainless steel (304SS), which is the main structural material used in the primary loop, the microstructural characteristics and chemical composition of a 304SS surface layer immersed for 240 h in borated and lithiated high-temperature water containing cobalt were investigated with scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), laser Raman spectroscopy (LRS), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), glow discharge optical emission spectrometry (GD-OES), and inductively coupled plasma emission mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). The results showed that two distinct cobalt deposition layers (an outer layer of CoFe2O4 and an inner layer of CoCr2O4) were formed on the 304SS after 240 h of immersion. Further research showed that CoFe2O4 was formed on the metal surface by coprecipitation of the iron preferentially dissolved from the 304SS surface with cobalt ions from the solution. The CoCr2O4 was formed by ion exchange between the cobalt ions entering the metal inner oxide layer and (Fe, Ni) Cr2O4. 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