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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.”
Robert R. Peterson
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 686-691
Inertial Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29424
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The design of target chambers for the Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) Laboratory Microfusion Facility (LMF) requires a good understanding of the pressure loadings experienced by the chamber walls. Beam transport, diagnostics, and LMF applications place severe constraints on the chamber fill gas; in current light ion beam concepts only 1.5 torr-meters of helium are between the target and the closest target chamber structures. Simulations of the unavoidable vaporization of the first wall have been performed with the CONRAD computer code for a light ion beam LMF concept. Results show that the peak pressure on the wall is a function of the target x-ray power density on the wall, while the impulse on the wall is a function of x-ray fluence.