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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.”
Albert G. Gu, Robert K. F. Teng, Mark S. Miller, Wayne J. Sprouse
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 16 | Number 2 | September 1989 | Pages 248-250
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A29156
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A series of experiments using deuterium gas and deuterium plasma in the presence of palladium has been designed to observe the possibility of cold fusion. Two kinds of preliminary experiments were recently performed. One involved the diffusion of deuterium gas into palladium. The gas was cooled by liquid nitrogen, and then the temperature was permitted to rise to room temperature, going from near −34 to 19°C (−30 to 67°F) in 75 min. A spherical lithium neutron detector, 21 cm from the palladium, gave an audible indication of neutron levels approximately equal to, but above, background. A second experiment used a deuterium ion beam (1 keV) that bombarded a palladium target. An average counting rate of 36 ± 6 counts for 2 min was measured by a BF3 tube with a paraffin moderator, 50 cm from the target. The background varied from 1 to 7 counts for each 2-min counting period and averaged 4 ± 2 counts in 2 min. A nitrogen ion beam impinging on the same palladium target produced 6 counts for a 2-min counting period. The palladium specimens were a piece of foil and a tube that was used as a palladium leak in a neutron generator. These preliminary experiments will be repeated, improved, and extended later.