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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.”
Roland A. Jalbert, Sandra J. Brereton, Douglas F. Holland
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 3 | November 1986 | Pages 1223-1227
Environment and Safety | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24897
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To study the problem of outgassing of contaminated room surfaces following a significant tritium (T) room release, painted metal strips were exposed to tritium (T2 or HTO)* and the outgassing rates measured. This was followed by exposures in a 1-m3 chamber, whose walls were coated with the material to be studied. The results show that the differences in the contamination of, and subsequent outgassing by, several epoxy and latex paints may be significant. The greatest differences, however, were the much higher contamination following exposure to HTO compared to T2, and the lower contamination of exposed bare aluminum foil compared to painted surfaces, for both HTO and T2.