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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.”
Jaromir A. Maly, Jaroslav Vávra
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 24 | Number 3 | November 1993 | Pages 307-318
Technical Note | Cold Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST93-A30206
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The original solutions of the Schrodinger relativistic equation and the Dirac equation for hydrogen-like atoms were analyzed for the possible existence of some other electron levels, which were not originally derived. It was found that besides the known atomic levels, each atom should also have the deep Dirac levels (DDLs). The electron transition on such DDLs would produce large amounts of atomic energy (400 to 510 keV per transition depending on the Z of the atom). A possible explanation is given for the excess heat effect observed recently in the electrolysis of lithium or potassium ions, based on existing Dirac quantum theory. The same calculation technique is applied to atoms formed from elementary particles such as e−e+, µ+µ−, τ+τ−, e−µ+, e−τ+, µ−τ+, etc.