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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.”
H. Noguchi, Clay E. Easterly, M. R. Bennett
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 16 | Number 2 | September 1989 | Pages 137-142
Technical Paper | Tritium System | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A29142
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The conversion reaction of tritium gas (T2) to tritiated water was studied experimentally at initial tritium concentrations between 9.6 × 10−3 and 48 GBq · m−3 (2.6 × 10−4 and 1.3 Ci · m−3) in air. Effects of water vapor and catalysts on the conversion reaction were also examined. Stainless steel, copper, paint, and platinum black were used as potential catalytic surfaces. First-order rate constants for the reaction in air are found to be independent of initial tritium concentration, and there is no effect from water vapor on the reaction. The conversion is insensitive to the presence or absence of stainless steel and copper. Paint sorbs T2 and HTO, but the latter is desorbed from the paint by heating. Platinum black produces the expected increase in the rate of reaction.