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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.”
Mohamed E. Sawan
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 3 | November 1986 | Pages 1483-1488
Fusion Nucleonic | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24943
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Geometrical and spectral differences between inertial confinement fusion (ICF) and magnetic confinement fusion (MCF) facilities lead to significant variation of up to ∼ 60% in peak values and profiles of the time averaged blanket nuclear parameters for the same first wall exposure. Simple scaling of radiation effects with neutron wall loading is inappropriate. These effects together with the temporal effects, that result in ∼ 5 to 8 orders of magnitude higher instantaneous reaction rates in the pulsed ICF reactors, lead to significantly different blanket performances in the ICF and MCF reactor environments.