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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.”
Shigeo Numata, Yasuhiko Fujii, Makoto Okamoto
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 466-472
Technical Paper | Safety Environmental Aspect | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29387
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Cleanup of tritiated water in typical reactor-size concrete enclosures is simulated taking into account the soaking of the tritiated water into the concrete. For an enclosure made of concrete with ordinary porosity, the “soaking effect” has little effect on the cleanup time for releases with tritium concentrations of <1 × 108 Bq/m3. If the concrete porosity is reduced to 0.03, the soaking effect has little effect on the cleanup time for a tritium concentration of up to 1 × 109 Bq/m3. An optimum flow rate of between 1 × 104 and 1.5 × 104 m3/h for the tritium removal system minimizes the costs of removal system equipment and facility downtime for releases with a concentration >5 × 108 Bq/m3 in a typical reactor-size enclosure. Estimated total costs to complete the cleanup within 48 and 72 h with these flow rates are within 1.3 times of the minimum total costs. The estimated total costs for a cleanup time of 48 h are comparable to those for a cleanup time of 72 h.