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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.”
Johann Rafelski, Mikolaj Sawicki, Mariusz Gajda, David Harley
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 18 | Number 1 | August 1990 | Pages 136-142
Technical Note | Cold Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A29239
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A yet undiscovered ultra-heavy, negatively charged particle X−, a remnant from the early Universe, could be the origin of diverse cold fusion phenomena. The possibility that the random fusion neutrons reported by Jones et al. in association with electrolysis of heavy water may be caused by inflight X−-induced reactions is considered in detail. The catalysis of other cold fusion phenomena such as heat production without penetrating radiation, or tritium production without production of neutrons, is also discussed.