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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.”
D. Nishijima, Y. Kikuchi, M. Nakatsuka, M. J. Baldwin, R. P. Doerner, M. Nagata, Y. Ueda
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 4 | November 2011 | Pages 1447-1450
Interaction with Materials | Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12703
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Sequential exposures of W surfaces to steady-state and pulsed (~0.5 ms) plasmas have been performed in a linear divertor plasma simulator and a magnetized coaxial plasma gun to investigate effects of D blisters, nano-sized He bubbles, and He-induced W fuzz on surface cracking by pulsed plasma loads. Surface cracks appeared on samples containing D blisters or He bubbles following 10 shots at ~0.5 MJ/m2 per shot, while a mirror-polished sample with no pre-plasma exposure did not exhibit cracks after similar transient exposures. Note that the cracking is limited to the edge region for a sample with D blisters. This means that the energy density threshold for surface cracking is lowered by the existence of D blisters and, especially, He bubbles. On the other hand, it is found that fuzzy surfaces possess a good resistance to surface cracking, although arcing is prone to occur.