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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.”
Claude Deutsch, Patrice Fromy, Xavier Garbet, Gilles Maynard
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 13 | Number 2 | February 1988 | Pages 362-374
Technical Paper | Heavy-Ion Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST88-A25111
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A few basic atomic problems are associated with the stopping of nonrelativistic pointlike ions in dense and hot matter. First, the free electron contribution is considered, taken in random phase approximation with an exact dynamic dielectric function, valid at any temperature. Stopping power and straggling can thus be obtained for any projectile velocity. The temperature dependence is of special relevance for a projectile energy <5 MeV/amu. The mean excitation energies of bound electrons are then considered and found to be smaller than in cold matter. The projectile effective charge in hot targets is also investigated. Experiments involving a heavy-ion beam produced by a standard accelerator and interacting with an independently produced coronal plasma are described.