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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.”
Craig Beidler, Günter Grieger, Franz Herrnegger, Ewald Harmeyer, Johann Kisslinger, Wolf Lotz, Henning Maassberg, Peter Merkel, Jürgen Nührenberg, Fritz Rau, Jörg Sapper, Francesco Sardei, Ruben Scardovelli, Arnulf Schlüter, Horst Wobig
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 17 | Number 1 | January 1990 | Pages 148-168
Technical Paper | Stellarator System | doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A29178
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The future experiment Wendelstein VII-X (W VII-X) is being developed at the Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik. A Helical Advanced Stellarator (Helias) configuration has been chosen because of its confinement and stability properties. The goals of W VII-X are to continue the development of the modular stellarator, to demonstrate the reactor capability of this stellarator line, and to achieve quasi-steady-state operation in a temperature regime >5 keV. This temperature regime can be reached in W VII-X if neoclassical transport plus the anomalous transport found in W VII-A prevail. A heating power of 20 MW will be applied to reach the reactor-relevant parameter regime. The magnetic field in W VII-X has five field periods. Other basic data are as follows: major radius R0 = 6.5 m, magnetic induction B0 = 3 T, stored magnetic energy W ≈ 0.88 GJ, and average plasma radius a = 0.65 m. Superconducting coils are favored because of their steady-state field, but pulsed water-cooled copper coils are also being investigated. Unlike planar circular magnetic field coils, which experience only a radially directed force, twisted coils are subject to a lateral force component as well. Studies of various superconducting coil systems for Helias configurations have shown that the magnitudes of these radial and lateral force components are comparable. Based on a support model, the mechanical stresses are calculated; all components of the stress tensor are of equal importance. Other studies being conducted are concerned with the many complex engineering aspects presented by the construction of nonplanar superconducting coils.