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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.E. Everatt, A.H. Dombra, R.E. Johnson
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 14 | Number 2 | September 1988 | Pages 624-628
Tritium Processing | Proceedings of the Third Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology in Fission, Fusion and Isotopic Applications (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 1-6, 1988) | doi.org/10.13182/FST88-A25204
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Air detritiation dryers at fusion facilities require high detritiation factors to minimize environmental releases. To increase the detritiation factor in air dryers, we have investigated a technique of eluting the residual adsorbed tritiated water on a molecular sieve bed that uses H2O steam washing during regeneration. The method relies on additional detritiation of the air stream occurring through isotopic exchange between the tritiated water vapor passing through a dryer bed with previously adsorbed non-tritiated water. Isotopic exchange is studied in both an operating industrial-scale air dryer, where the bed has been pretreated to remove tritium, and in a small laboratory bed. A mathematical model is presented to quantify the isotopic exchange process.