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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.”
G. H. Miley, J. Nadler, T. Hochberg, Y. Gu, O. Barnouin, J. Lovberg
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 840-845
Advanced Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-3
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Inertial-Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) is currently undergoing renewed experimental and theoretical study as a fusion reactor scheme that can burn advanced fuels such as D-3He and p-11B. The goal of the IEC approach is the confinement of plasma inside multiple nested spherical potential wells. These wells are created by injecting ions into a highly transparent, high voltage (5 – 50 kV) spherical cathode. Multiple passes of ions through the center create a high density non-Maxwellian core. An IEC device can produce intense beam-background (ion-neutral) and beam-beam (ion-ion) fusion reactions with or without the formation of a “Poissor” structure (multiple well). Two different approaches for injecting ions are also under study: ion guns and ionization of background gas. The initial experimental results presented here are taken in the non-Poissor beam-background mode as a precursor to experimentation in the more complex beam-beam and Poissor modes.