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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.”
U. Engelmann, M. Glugla, R.-D. Penzhom, H. J. Ache
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 2 | March 1992 | Pages 430-435
Safety; Measurement and Accountability; Operation and Maintenance; Application | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29783
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The radiochemical reactions between methane and tritium were vicariously chosen for the evaluation of an omegatron type mass spectrometer and a laser Raman spectrometer in view of their analytical application in tritium systems. Assessment of the omegatron was extended beyond previous work on the quantitative analysis of all hydrogen isotopes and stable helium isotopes to include the determination of tritiated hydrocarbons. As opposed to mass spectrometry, laser Raman spectroscopy is an absolute method, which in principle is applicable to all polyatomic gases. For the employment in tritium systems an uhv-tight stainless steel gas cell using windows mounted in CF flanges with a flatness better than 1 lambda was constructed and tested. The Raman spectra of H2, HD and D2 were measured and the pure rotation and rotation vibration branches assigned. The fundamental vibrations of methane and deuterated methanes have also been identified. First kinetic data on the β-radiation induced exchange reaction between tritium and methane have been obtained with an omegatron.