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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.”
M. A. Sweeney, J. A. Halbleib, K. M. Tolk
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 3 | November 1986 | Pages 656-663
Inertial Confinement Fusion Driver Technology | Proceedings of the Seveth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Reno, Nevada, June 15–19, 1986) | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24817
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The Sandia National Laboratories Particle Beam Fusion Accelerator PBFA II is expected to produce significant bremsstrahlung on every shot during 30 MV operation. Shielding specific electronic components from the intense bremsstrahlung environment is an important consideration. We describe new 3-D Monte Carlo electron-photon transport simulations of the PBFA-II facility that include a more efficient version of the next-event-estimator calculation and final design information for accelerator components within the vacuum chamber. The improved bremsstrahlung shielding analysis is compared with pin diode and thermoluminescent dosimetry measurements obtained during the first four months of accelerator testing.