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Members focus on the dissemination of knowledge and information in the area of power reactors with particular application to the production of electric power and process heat. The division sponsors meetings on the coverage of applied nuclear science and engineering as related to power plants, non-power reactors, and other nuclear facilities. It encourages and assists with the dissemination of knowledge pertinent to the safe and efficient operation of nuclear facilities through professional staff development, information exchange, and supporting the generation of viable solutions to current issues.
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Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
August 4–7, 2024
Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
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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.”
Reed J. Jensen
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 11 | Number 3 | May 1987 | Pages 481-485
Overview | doi.org/10.13182/FST87-A25029
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
An overview of KrF laser issues for fusion in the laboratory environment is presented. In this fusion method, lasers are used to compress the deuteriumtritium fuel in the pellet to several thousand times its initial density. Krypton-fluoride lasers offer favorable wavelength, bandwidth, pulse-shaping, efficiency, and high-repetition rate properties for achieving fusion. Large-scale demonstration plants for fusion, however, rely on the improvement or resolution of significant issues: front-end capabilities, amplifiers and amplifier scaling, optical engineering for the ultraviolet, alignment systems, kinetics, beam quality, target coupling, cost, and overall system factors. We feel that KrF lasers may be able to meet the required inertial confinement fusion driver characteristics, driver-target coupling particularities, and capsule physics issues necessary to achieve the final conditions in the implosion that will produce net energy release from the fusion reaction.