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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.”
Tatsuo Izumida, Yoshihiro Ozawa, Kunio Ozawa, Shigeru Izumi, Shunsuke Uchida, Tomohiko Miyamoto, Hisao Yamashita, Hiroshi Miyadera
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 18 | Number 4 | December 1990 | Pages 641-646
Technical Notes on Cold Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A29257
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Experiments on cold nuclear fusion are performed on titanium deutende (TiD2) crystal warmed from liquid nitrogen temperature to room temperature. Fusion with an estimated thermal energy output much smaller than the expected level (1012 to 1013 fusion/s·g−1) is confirmed by neutron burst emission, but without excess heat production. By analyzing the temperature dependence of the neutron emission in the titanium-deuterium system, it is concluded that so-called cold nuclear fusion may actually be hot-spot fusion caused by a localized high voltage generated, along with fracture formation, in the TiD2 by lattice strain.