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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.”
E. Greenspan, G. H. Miley
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 2 | Number 1 | January 1982 | Pages 43-54
Technical Paper | Fusion Fuel Cycles | doi.org/10.13182/FST82-A20733
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The maximum fraction of 3He recoverable from deuterium-based plasmas (to fuel D-3He fusion reactors) is investigated, and optimal plasma conditions are identified. The upper bound to the fraction of 3He recoverable from ignited plasmas is ∼80%, corresponding to one 3He atom per 50 MeV of fusion energy, but recovery efficiency is very sensitive to the plasma energy balance. Effects of enhanced radiation losses, tritium assistance, ion/electron temperature split, plasma temperature and density profiles, and external plasma heating are examined. It appears possible to recover ∼70% of the 3He produced in realistic driven semi-catalyzed deuterium (SCD) plasmas, at 70 MeV per atom. This suggests interesting possibilities for the symbiosis of SCD synfuel factories with satellite D-3He reactors for the generation of electricity.
