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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.”
Jean-Georges Wégrowe
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 7 | Number 2 | March 1985 | Pages 250-274
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A24542
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Experimental data from a number of lower hybrid experiments are compared with theoretical predictions in different domains of interest for reactor applications. While some points still remain undecided (enhancement of the number of resonant electrons in the current drive regime, for which a number of theoretical explanations are proposed) or not yet understood (occasional quenching of the wave penetration in the ion heating regime), a good general agreement of the experimental results with the conventional theories is found in many respects (wave coupling, wave propagation, boundaries of the high-frequency and plasma parameter domains for different types of interactions, ion heating in the majority of cases, parametric dependence of current drive, and power deposition on the electrons).