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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.”
S. González, J. Vega, A. Murari, JET-EFDA Contributors
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 58 | Number 3 | November 2010 | Pages 763-770
Selected Paper from Sixth Fusion Data Validation Workshop 2010 (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST10-A10925
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Visible light and infrared cameras allow the acquisition of plasma movies during discharges. A great amount of data from video-movies is stored for every discharge, and therefore, automatic methods for image processing are required. In this paper we describe an automatic off-line technique for plasma movie analysis. Support vector regression, a constructive learning procedure based on the statistical learning theory, is used to retrieve information from movie frames. The developed technique is applied to locate generic events during movies, to recognize regions of interest (ROI) in single frames, and to study the evolution of these ROI during plasma discharges. The technique has been tested using JET real video-movies of both infrared and visible light cameras.