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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 since 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. local time 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.”
A. Simonetto, G. Solari, F. Gandini, G. Granucci, V. Muzzini, C. Sozzi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 40 | Number 3 | November 2001 | Pages 247-252
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A192
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Compact directional couplers-polarimeters were developed for the circular corrugated waveguide transmission lines of the joint IFP-ENEA Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating experiment at 140 GHz, 2 MW on the Frascati Tokamak Upgrade in Frascati.A linear array of cutoff holes was drilled in the mirrors of the quasi-optical miter bends. The radiated pattern preserves the symmetry and polarization of the waveguide mode in the plane of the array. The direction of propagation is preserved too.Two pairs of standard gain horns with detectors are placed in the plane of the array along the propagation axes of incident and reflected radiation to detect both linear components. The whole assembly is enclosed in a shielded anechoic box of suitable geometry.