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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.”
Myron A. Hoffman
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 625-633
Inertial Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29415
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
HYLIFE is the name given to a family of self-healing liquid-wall reactor concepts for ICF (inertial confinement fusion). This HYLIFE-II concept employs the molten salt, Flibe, for the liquid jets instead of liquid lithium used in the original HYLIFE-I study (Blink, et. al., 1985). A preliminary conceptual design study of the heat transport system and the BOP (balance of plant) of the HYLIFE-II fusion power plant is described in this paper with special emphasis on a scoping study to determine the best IHX (intermediate heat exchanger) geometry and flow conditions for minimum COE (cost of electricity).