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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.”
Michael Täschner, Claus Bunnenberg, Werner Gulden
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 20 | Number 1 | August 1991 | Pages 58-64
Technical Paper | Safety/Environmental Aspect | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29643
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It is important in the design of future fusion reactors and associated facilities that incorporate passive safety to take account of the possible environmental impact of accidental tritium release. Reliable information on dose consequences can be obtained by evaluating urine samples from persons exposed to tritium. Translating the results of the environmental HT experiment performed in France in 1986 into worst-case exposure conditions, the effective dose equivalent to an individual with highest exposure at a distance of 800 m (typical for site boundaries) is ∼1 × 10−4 Sv per gram of tritium emitted as HT when inhalation and skin absorption are considered. From this value, maximum permissible amounts of accidentally released HT can be derived on the basis of regulatory or anticipated dose limits. A comparison to a tritium release in the form of HTO shows that there is no fixed factor that can be used to convert the dose consequences of an HT release into those of a corresponding HTO release. The factor ranges from at least 10 for worst-case conditions to ∼70.