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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.”
M. Okamoto, T. Yoshida, M. Takizawa, M. Aida, M. Nomura, Y. Fujii
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 14 | Number 2 | September 1988 | Pages 689-694
Tritium Properties and Interactions with Material | 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-A25214
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An ECR plasma discharge device has been designed and operated to study plasma driven permeation initiated by a scrape-off plasma. The observed plasma parameters are ne: 1010/cm3 and Te: <5eV in the pressure (Po) range of 0.5 − 5 Pa. Protium and deuterium permeation through a SS 304 foil of 10 µm has been measured as functions of the pressure, bias voltage and the temperature of the sample foil. Even such a low temperature plasma, a typical plasma driven permeation was observed with a very sharp“spike” at the start point of the permeation. An evident mass effect was also observed in the permeation of hydrogen isotopes. At a low pressure, around 2 Pa, the permeation showed to depend on bias voltages applied to the tested sample foil.
