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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.”
William P. Kelleher, Don Steiner
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 15 | Number 4 | July 1989 | Pages 1507-1519
Technical Paper | Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A25341
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A personal-computer (PC)-based calculational approach assesses magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equilibrium and poloidal field (PF) coil arrangement in a highly interactive mode, well suited for tokamak scoping studies. The system developed involves a two-step process: First the MHD equilibrium is calculated and then a PF coil arrangement, consistent with the equilibrium, is determined in an interactive design environment. The approach is used to examine four distinctly different toroidal configurations: the STARFIRE reactor, a spherical torus (ST), the Big Dee, and an elongated tokamak. In these applications the PC-based results are benchmarked against those of a mainframe code for STARFIRE, ST, and Big Dee. The equilibrium and PF coil arrangement calculations obtained with the PC approach agree within a few percent with those obtained with the mainframe code. The applications and benchmarks demonstrate both the flexibility and the accuracy of the PC-based system, making it an ideal tool for scoping studies.