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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.”
Yong Song, Qunying Huang, Muyi Ni, Xiaoqiang Chen
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 3 | October 2011 | Pages 1121-1124
Concept and Facility | Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12612
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The initial tritium supply for starting up FDS-II was done by using the Tritium Analysis Software (TAS) developed by FDS Team. The results showed that the initial tritium supply for startup was strongly dependent on the tritium burn-up fraction in plasma and mean residence time of tritium in the plasma exhaust processing system. Considering the sensitive analysis and other advanced designs, the tritium burn-up fraction in plasma was selected to be 0.1 for FDS-II. The minimum initial tritium supply for startup was ~4.2kg. Considering the potential malfunction in the fuel cycle system and assuming the reactor ran continuously before solving the malfunction, it was reasonable to keep the initial tritium supply for FDS-II as ~8.9kg.