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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.”
A. Kaye, J. Jacquinot, P. Lallia, T. Wade
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 11 | Number 1 | January 1987 | Pages 203-234
Technical Paper | JET Project | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-203-234
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The Joint European Torus (JET) tokamak will ultimately have 15 MW of additional heating in the ion cyclotron range of frequencies (ICRF). Three uncooled prototype antennas and associated 3-MW generators are already operational and have coupled up to 6 MW to the plasma for pulse lengths up to several seconds. Eight cooled antennas for long-pulse operation are to be installed in 1987, and manufacture of these systems is well advanced. The design and development of the major components of this ICRF system — the radio-frequency (rf) generators, the coaxial transmission lines, the tuning facilities, and the antennas — are detailed. A test bed for rf testing of the components and assemblies has been installed on JET and test results are also presented. Underlying analytical studies of the various operating scenarios (3He or hydrogen minority heating, second harmonic heating, etc.) of the influence of the k‖ spectrum, and of modeling of the antennas to predict coupling resistance and impedance are also summarized. Preliminary results from the initial operation of the prototype antennas are presented.