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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.”
S. Fukuda, M. Mohri, T. Yamashina
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 6 | Number 2 | September 1984 | Pages 420-423
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-A23216
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Compositional changes in the surface region of single-crystal SiC(0001) due to heat treatment and light ion irradiation in the keV range were studied with the use of AES. The heat treatment at 1000°C formed a carbon enriched layer with a thickness of 20 Å on the top surface and a carbon depletion layer below this layer. Both hydrogen and helium ion irradiation caused depletion of silicon atoms in the near surface region and depletion of carbon atoms in the deeper surface region. TRIM computations revealed that in the process of slowing down of incident hydrogen ions, their kinetic energy was transfered preferentially to silicon atoms in the near surface region and to carbon atoms in the deeper surface region. This tendency explains the formation of each altered layer.
