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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. Tanase, K. Kurosawa, M. Fujie, H. Sugai, S. Okane, M. Kato
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 14 | Number 2 | September 1988 | Pages 1090-1095
Measurement of Tritium | doi.org/10.13182/FST88-A25284
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The tritium gas obtained from a tritium production campaign was analyzed with a practical radiogas Chromatograph, which enabled one to make successive determination of the chemical and isotopic purity of the gas. The calibration of thermal conductivity detector for hydrogen gases showed that sensitivities of detector were H2>HT>T2 in that order. The chemical and isotopic purity of the tritium gas produced was determined to be 99.0% and 93.6%, respectively.
