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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.”
William B. Thompson, Siebe Jorna
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 3 | Number 3 | May 1983 | Pages 416-431
Technical Paper | ICF Driver Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A20865
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We analyzed several properties of an electron neutralized light ion beam that is radially and longitudinally collapsing as it propagates through a diffuse background gas. Considerations of both equilibrium and stability suggest that if such a beam can be produced with an initial effective emittance of ∼2 × 10−4 cm⋅rad, and is neutralized to one part in 106, then it could be propagated through a background pressure of order 10−5 Torr, compressed by a factor of 2 − 105, and deliver of order 1013 W/cm2 on a 0.1-cm-radius target; hence, it could form an economical driver for a pellet fusion system.
