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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.”
D. H. J. Goodall, G. E. Austin, J. M. Weaver
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 6 | Number 2 | September 1984 | Pages 393-398
Technical Paper | Selected papers from the Ninth International Vacuum Congress and the Fifth International Conference on Solid Surfaces (Madrid, Spain, September 26-October 1, 1983) | doi.org/10.13182/FST84-A23211
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The DITE tokamak has a bundle divertor capable of operating in the maximum toroidal field of 2.7 T. A scanning infrared camera with a framing rate of 50 f.p.s. has been used to determine the power and power density at the divertor target. For discharges with 1.4 MW of neutral injection, peak diverted powers of nearly 400 kW were observed during the neutral injection period, representing 24% of the total input power. Power densities on the ion drift side of the target of up to 30 MW m−2 were measured for these discharges. Discharges without neutral injection show a maximum power diversion when the gas puffing is switched off.
