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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.”
Rolf Bünde
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 14 | Number 1 | July 1988 | Pages 197-217
Technical Paper | Net Overview | doi.org/10.13182/FST88-A25159
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To achieve its targets in reasonable time, the Next European Torus (NET) must be operated with considerable reliability and availability (R&A). Therefore, failure modes, effects, and criticality analysis (FMECA) of the overall plant and of its major components is already being performed as the design evolves. The present status of the R&A work is described in four steps: First, the R&A targets envisaged for the NET operation are discussed. Then an FMECA covering the overall plant is described, and a more detailed FMECA of major components is presented concerning the toroidal field coil system; plasma heating systems; protection, instrumentation, and control system; first wall and blanket, as well as the cooling system. Finally, the R&A results are compared with the targets, and measures for improvements are given.
