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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.”
Yasushi Yamamoto, Mai Ichinose, Fumito Okino, Kazuyuki Noborio, Satoshi Konishi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 2 | August 2011 | Pages 558-562
Blanket Design and Experiments | Proceedings of the Nineteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12442
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In the design of the fusion blanket, it is important to gather generated tritium as quick as possible and supply them to a fuel supply system for keeping fuel cycle and reducing tritium inventories in the fusion reactor at the same time.In the advanced blanket concept which uses Lithium-Lead (LiPb) as the working fluid for heat removal, neutron shielding and tritium breeding, collection of generated tritium is thought not to be difficult as the solubility of hydrogen into the LiPb is small enough. But examination and design of these collecting systems was not fully studied.In this paper, we made the conceptual design of the tritium collecting device using vacuum sieve tray, and studied formation process of LiPb droplets by making a simple experimental device. It was found that droplets of about 0.9-mm radius were formed at 8~12-cm distance from nozzle when LiPb discharges from the nozzle with 1-mm diameter hole at pressure of 2.5×104 Pa. Using this value, it is estimated that the tritium collecting efficiency of 45% can be achieved with 1-m height single stage sieve tray at temperature of 500 °C.