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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.”
R. Paul Drake
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 3 | Number 3 | May 1983 | Pages 405-415
Technical Paper | First-wall Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A20864
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Data from the Tandem Mirror Experiment (TMX) and other recent research show how to control plasma/wall interactions in tandem mirrors (TMs). Based on current knowledge, plasma/wall interactions will not limit the performance of TM reactors—either at the end walls or the radial walls. Magnetic field expansion and gas pumping can be used to regulate the plasma conditions at the end wall. Specifically, in TMX the plasma density at the end wall was found to be ≈2 × 109 em −3, whereas the end-plug density was ≈2 × 1013 cm−3; also, the sheath potential at the wall (8 V) was <10% of the end-plug electron temperature. The "natural divertor" effect-by which positively charged plasmas in magnetic mirror machines exhaust particles and energy to the end wall—can be used to both control the plasma conditions at the radial walls and divert impurities to the end wall. These techniques, the data that support them, and needed areas of further research are discussed.