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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.”
P.G. Papanikolaou, C.K. Choi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1317-1321
Result of Large Experiment and Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29524
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The potential for the field-reversed configuration (FRC) as a fusion reactor concept, in particular as a candidate for an alternate concept device, depends on its confinement characteristics. The advantages of an FRC plasma are that it is easily produced and has low impurity concentrations. Currently, the electron and heat loss rates are higher than those predicted by Coulomb collisions. Analyses using the local approximation predict that LHD waves should exist near the separatrix, but experiments have failed to detect them. This local approximation may not be valid in two regions: near the field null, where ion orbits may be large and near the separatrix, where the equilibrium magnetic field and the plasma density can change appreciably. In this papaer we develop a method to analyze the stability of a 1-D FRC that takes the sharp gradients near the separatrix and the effect of the field null into account. This finite element code seeks a solution to the linearized Maxwell-Vlasov equations in the form of eigenvalues to a dispersion matrix. The dispersion matrix contains all the information pertaining to the stability of the plasma.