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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.”
E. C. Morse, Z. Mikic
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 7 | Number 2 | March 1985 | Pages 311-315
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A24548
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A computer code that integrates the ray equations for the cold plasma dispersion relation in an inhomogeneous medium is developed. This algorithm is applied to two cases of interest in radio-frequency heating and current drive, namely, the lower hybrid spectrum (1.0 to 2.5 GHz) and the electron cyclotron resonance spectrum (30 to 300 GHz). The geometry studied is the compact torus fusion device. Traces of the propagation of lower hybrid waves and electron cyclotron heating frequency waves are shown.
