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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.”
Hiroshi Nakashima, Shun-Ichi Tanaka, Tomoo Suzuki
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 16 | Number 3 | November 1989 | Pages 365-376
Technical Paper | Shielding | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A29127
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An experiment was carried out to study the behavior of 14-MeV neutrons incident to a large cavity composed of mortar coated with stainless steel, which simulates a neutral beam injector (NBI) in a tokamak fusion reactor. Fast neutron spectra and reaction rate distributions were measured inside the cavity with a 5.06-cm-high × 5.06-cm-diam NE-213 spectrometer as well as 232Th and 235U fission counters. The experimental results were analyzed with a Monte Carlo MCNP-3 code, using nuclear data files from the JENDL series and from ENDF/B-IV. Calculations with two discrete ordinates codes, DOT3.5 and BERMUDA-2DN, using ENDF/B-IV and JENDL nuclear data files, were also compared with the measurements to study their applicability for NBI design. For fast neutrons, the MCNP calculations are in good agreement with the measurements. Moreover, comparison between the DOT3.5 and BERMUDA-2DN calculations showed the significant effect of the Legendre expansion of neutron scattering in the high-energy region. For low-energy neutrons, the DOT3.5 code calculations agreed with the measurements, while the MCNP code could not successfully reproduce the measurements. The experiments also suggested that the ratios of thermal and epithermal neutrons were constant for the 14-MeV neutrons coming into the cavity.