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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.”
Vincent S. Chan, Chuan Sheng Liu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 7 | Number 2 | March 1985 | Pages 288-295
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A24545
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A theory is presented to account for the wave energy in lower hybrid current drive experiments when the density threshold for decay into ion cyclotron quasi-mode is exceeded. Immediately above the threshold, convective losses dominate and discrete sidebands are excited. These sidebands have much larger wave-numbers, and strong minority ion heating is possible. Majority ion heating occurs, however, only at high power. At higher densities, ion Landau damping becomes important. The frequency spectrum is non-monotonic in this region with the minimum frequency determined by nonlinear coupling. Majority ion absorption is significant even at moderate power levels.