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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 Bittner, Andreas Meister, Detlef Ohms, Elief Paffrath, Dietmar Rahner, Rainer Schwierz, Dieter Seeliger, Klaus Wiesener, Peter Wüstner
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 20 | Number 3 | November 1991 | Pages 334-348
Technical Note on Cold Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29674
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Two successive long-duration experiments for the observation of deuteron-deuteron (d-d) fusion neutrons emanating from a massive palladium slab are described. The experimental effects observed are discussed through the use of a simple plasmalike model for the time dependence of fusion reactions in condensed matter, which is modified for a plane geometry. This results in a plasma fusion rate of . While plasmalike behavior leading to observable d-d fusion reaction intensities occurs temporarily, under nonequilibrium conditions of electrolytic charging only, for permanently occurring d-d molecular fusion in the fully loaded palladium slab from the experiments, only an upper limit can be set, which is given by Λd-d < 10-26 s-1.