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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.”
Yasunori Iwai, Toshihiko Yamanishi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 1 | July 2011 | Pages 144-149
ITER Systems | Proceedings of the Nineteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) (Part 1) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12342
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For a practical air detritiation system, the effect of the residual tritiated water left on the silica was demonstrated. The residual tritiated water significantly reduced the detritiation factor of the air detritiation dryer. To maintain the detritiation factor more than 350, the space velocity lower than 140 h-1 should be selected for the design and the operation of an air detritiation dryer packed with silica gel. The HTO/H2O separation factor evaluated using a dryer with residual tritiated water was 1.17 on the average. Silica gel is superior to commercial molecular sieves in dehydration ratio at room temperature. Dehydration from silica gel was dependent on the accumulated amount of purge gas, independent on flow rate. Dehydration from silica gel showed a slight pressure dependency. Consequently, silica gel is a promising desiccant agent for air detritiation dryer.