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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. B. Hooper, Jr., Peter Poulsen, Oscar A. Anderson
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 2 | Number 3 | July 1982 | Pages 362-371
Technical Paper | Special Section Contents / Plasma Heating System | doi.org/10.13182/FST82-A20769
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Negative ion production for neutral (deuteron) beam injectors is considered for a general system utilizing charge-exchange production in alkali metals. Experimental results provide parameters and show good correlation with calculations using known atomic cross sections, so that beam behavior can be predicted. It is found that coupling into the high voltage accelerator poses significant constraints on optimization of the system, e.g., to determine its minimum size. A typical design for 200-ke V final energy provides D− at 1.5 keV from charge-exchange in rubidium, with an average current density of 23 mA/cm2 and a total current of 20 A.
