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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.”
D. Das, M. K. S. Ray
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 24 | Number 1 | August 1993 | Pages 115-121
Technical Notes on Cold Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST93-A30179
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A large body of experimental observations has evolved with particular reference to deuterated palladium, a mechanism of fusion unique to condensed matter. The mechanism brings to focus the relevance of the electronic structure of the host lattice, indicating the features that are desired. Direct interaction of electronegative elements such as oxygen (as happens in electrolysis experiments) creates, through modification of the electronic structure, situations under which heavy electrons are manifested. In cases where an oxide interface is present, an analogous situation is created at the onset of an insulator-metal transition caused by the induced migration of deuterons through the layer. Screened by the heavy fermions, deuterons in such situations undergo transition to a more stable quasi-molecular state, (D+D+)2e−, with substantially reduced nuclear separation. Through quantum mechanical tunneling, fusion takes place in such a cluster with a yield of 10−1.5 s−1, a value consistent with observed excess heat production and near-surface occurrence of the phenomenon.