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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.”
Arthur W. Dalton
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 15 | Number 1 | January 1989 | Pages 49-54
Technical Paper | Blanket Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A25323
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The tritium production rate (TPR) distribution in a fusion blanket assembly previously determined from measurements of tritium beta activity was remeasured using an independent electronic method. The results agreed within the experimental errors and confirmed the previously reported discrepancies with predictions based on three-dimensional Monte Carlo calculations and multigroup cross sections. The experimental agreement reduced the possibility that results based on the conventional chemical separation of the tritium produced could be subject to a common systematic error and confirmed the validity of the electronic method for TPR measurement. Detailed analysis showed that the discrepancies do not arise from possible neutron flux discrepancies but are most likely due to inadequate representation of anisotropic neutron scattering in the calculations.