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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.”
Wayne R. Meier, Edward C. Morse
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 3 | November 1985 | Pages 2681-2695
Technical Paper | Blanket Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A24689
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A method for optimizing the design of a fusion reactor blanket as a function of several design variables is applied to a modified version of the HYLIFE inertial confinement fusion reactor. This reactor concept uses an inner liquid lithium blanket for breeding tritium and an outer manganese-steel blanket to increase the fusion energy multiplication factor. The capital cost per unit of net electric power produced is minimized subject to constraints on the tritium breeding ratio and the radiation damage rate in the first structural wall. The optimal design has a 0.9-m-thick lithium blanket denatured to 0.1 % 6Li.