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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.”
J. D. Lee
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 26 | Number 1 | August 1994 | Pages 74-78
Technical Paper | Safety/Environmental Aspect | doi.org/10.13182/FST94-A30301
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Initial scoping analysis indicates that by using Type 304 stainless steel (SS), most of the vacuum vessel's structural mass in the HYLIFE-II inertial fusion energy power plant conceptual design could be disposed of by shallow burial. And, if all the structural components are mixed together and treated as one solid entity, all of it could be disposed of by shallow burial. Two other types of SS assessed, manganese-modified Type 316 SS and prime candidate alloy (PCA), were found to require disposal by deep geologic burial of most of the structural mass. The presence of niobium and molybdenum in manganese-modified Type 316 SS and PCA was found to dominate the generation of long-term wastes that contribute to the shallow burial index, and their presence should be avoided.