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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.”
Anthony Busigin, S. K. Sood, K. M. Kalyanam
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 20 | Number 2 | September 1991 | Pages 179-185
Technical Paper | Tritium System | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29688
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A new high-temperature isotopic exchange (HITEX) fuel processing loop (FPL) design for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is proposed. The new design has advantages over previous ones that were based on catalytic oxidation or decomposition of impurities; it eliminates the need for impurity oxidation and electrolysis of DTO and does not rely on complicated catalytic decomposition reactions. In the HITEX design, tritium is exchanged out of impurities such as tritiated methane, ammonia, and water by swamping with H2 and isotopically equilibrating the mixture in a high-temperature reactor. The reactor consists of a horizontal tube with an axial platinum metal hot wire operated at a temperature of 1173 K. The walls of the reactor are cooled to near room temperature to minimize permeation. Downstream from the reactor is a Pd/Ag permeator to separate out hydrogen and impurities. The separated H2/HT stream is sent to the isotope separation system for tritium recovery.