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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.”
Yasushi Seki, Hiromasa Iida, Robert T. Santoro, Hiromitsu Kawasaki, Michinori Yamauchi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 2 | Number 2 | April 1982 | Pages 272-285
Technical Paper | Shielding | doi.org/10.13182/FST82-A20760
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The effects of radiation streaming through the neutral beam injector (NBI) port and divertor throat of a tokamak fusion reactor, the INTOR-J, was evaluated using Monte Carlo and discrete ordinates methods. Radiation streaming through the NBI port is found to be tolerable when a thick drift tube support acts as an effective shield. Neutron streaming through the divertor throat, however, makes the shutdown dose too high for personnel access into the reactor room. The radiation levels in the reactor room resulting from leakage through the NBI room walls are far smaller than that from leakage through the bulk shield, except behind the NBI room. The Monte Carlo-Monte Carlo and discrete ordinates—Monte Carlo coupling techniques used in the present study are shown to be very effective for the radiation streaming calculations.