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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.”
Guy J. Sadler, Sean W. Conroy, Owen N. Jarvis, Pieter van Belle, J. Martin Adams, Malcolm A. Hone
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 18 | Number 4 | December 1990 | Pages 556-572
Alpha Particles in Fusion Research | doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A29247
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
An overview of experimental observations of fast-particle behavior in Joint European Torus (JET) plasmas is presented. The material is drawn directly from the results of measurements based on nuclear detection techniques. The earliest observations concern escaping 15-MeV protons from the D-3He reaction; they are detected in the form of spikes at the time of sawtooth crashes. Subsequent observations with a neutron multicollimator show that sawteeth expel neutral beam injected 80-keV deuterons from the central region of the plasma (but not necessarily out of the plasma). Extensive use has been made of the detection of gamma rays created when ion cyclotron resonance frequency (ICRF)-driven fast ions react with plasma fuel ions and with the main plasma impurity ions carbon, oxygen, and beryllium. Threshold reactions show that ICRF-driven ions can exceed energies of 7.5 MeV. Using ratios of gamma-ray intensities, tail temperatures in the mega-electron-volt range have been diagnosed. The energy content of these ions can exceed 1 MJ and can be as much as one-third of the total energy content of the plasma. Finally, the measurement of 14-MeV neutrons emitted during the burnup of tritons generated by the deuterium-deuterium reaction indicates that the single-particle behavior of 1-MeV tritons is classical within 20%, which implies similar behavior for 3.5-MeV alpha particles in deuterium-tritium plasmas.