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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 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. 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.”
R. Kumazawa, T. Mutoh, K. Saito, T. Seki, H. Kasahara, M. Tokitani, S. Masuzaki, N. Ashikawa, Y. Nakamura, S. Kubo, T. Shimozuma, Y. Yoshimura, H. Igami, H. Takahashi, Y. Takeiri, K. Tsumori, M. Osakabe, K. Ikeda, K. Nagaoka, O. Kaneko, M. Goto, K. Sato, H. Chikaraishi, K. Ida, Y. Nagayama, Y. Zhao, J. G. Kwak, J. S. Yoon, LHD Experiment Group
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 58 | Number 1 | July-August 2010 | Pages 524-529
Chapter 10. Ion Cyclotron Range of Frequency Heating | Special Issue on Large Helical Device (LHD) | doi.org/10.13182/FST10-A10839
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As one of the main objectives of operation of the Large Helical Device (LHD), long-pulse plasma discharge experiments have been carried out using ion cyclotron range of frequency (ICRF) heating power (mainly using a minority heating method). Discharges with electron density ne < 1019 m-3 and Te0 > 1 keV have been sustained with an ICRF heating power around [approximately]1 MW and an electron cyclotron heating power of [approximately]0.1 MW. The total injected heating energy exceeded 1.6 GJ. Many technological improvements were made before undertaking long-pulse plasma discharges, e.g., the installation of a steady-state high-rf power generator and a liquid stub tuner capable of real-time impedance matching. Over the past decade, the achieved pulse length has increased to 1 h. One of the keys to this success was dispersion of the local plasma heat load onto divertors, which was accomplished by cyclically sweeping the magnetic axis inward and outward. Eventually, the plasma terminated due to the penetration of impurities, which originated from the release of thin flakes on the divertor plates. The pulse length was extended by installing new divertor plates with better thermal conduction. A mode conversion heating scenario has been considered as an alternative to the minority ICRF heating scenario; the former may have advantages due to the lack of an ion cyclotron resonance layer in front of the antennas in the mode conversion case.