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Vogtle-3 shuts down for valve issue
One of the new Vogtle units in Georgia was shut down unexpectedly on Monday last week for a valve issue that has since been investigated and repaired. According to multiple local news outlets, Georgia Power reported on July 17 that Unit 3 was back in service.
Southern Company spokesperson Jacob Hawkins confirmed that Vogtle-3 went off line at 9:25 p.m. local time on July 8 “due to lowering water levels in the steam generators caused by a valve issue on one of the three main feedwater pumps.”
J. A. Tagle&, A. Pospieszczyk
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 6 | Number 2 | September 1984 | Pages 405-410
Technical Paper | Selected papers from the Ninth International Vacuum Congress and the Fifth International Conference on Solid Surfaces (Madrid, Spain, September 26-October 1, 1983) | doi.org/10.13182/FST84-A23213
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Inconel 600,Inconel 625 and austenitic steel (AISI 304LN) surfaces were cleaned in UHV by laser pulses of 1J total energy. Residual surface contamination layers were dissociated and desorbed. The surface cleanness degree reached was equivalent to that obtained by conventional cleaning techniques like bulk heating and sputtering by ion bombardment. A comparison between these three techniques is presented. The laser cleaning efficiency was found to be strongly dependent on the initial surface contamination degree and on the residual gas composition. In particular the effect of laser shots on the activation of the surface oxidation process at ambient pressures of about 10−9 mbar of CO was studied. The possibilities of using the laser heating technique as a tool in plasma edge diagnostic (in situ cleaning of probes,analysis of trapped particles, redeposition measurements,…) in fusion devices is discussed.