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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.”
Vern C. Rogers, Gary M. Sandquist
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 16 | Number 2 | September 1989 | Pages 254-259
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A29158
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Nuclear fusion between deuterons under ambient conditions has been observed in the metal cathode of an electrolysis cell with an electrolyte of heavy water. The evidence for the fusion reaction is derived primarily from the detection of a low level of 2.45-MeV neutrons presumably from the neutron branch of the deuterium fusion reaction. However, the estimated fusion energy yield associated with the neutron output is insufficient to account for the majority of the reported energy gain if the neutron-proton branch of the deuterium fusion reaction remains about equal to ambient conditions. The excess energy gain may arise from an unobserved chemical reaction or an unfamiliar nuclear reaction. Reported evidence of an excess of 4He in the vicinity of the cathode may indicate that a 4He branch from the deuterium fusion reaction may proceed at ambient conditions through internal electron conversion without a large release of gamma rays. These issues are explored, and attempts are made to provide physical mechanisms and explanations for the cold fusion experimental observations.