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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.”
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 26 | Number 3 | November 1994 | Pages 234-243
Technical Paper | Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST94-A30326
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Free-boundary nearly rigid displacements are considered in a plasma confined by a magnetic field consisting of one part generated by the plasma current density and one part due to steady currents in fixed external conductors. No conducting wall is assumed to surround the plasma. An induced surface current effect and a related force on the plasma arise when the externally applied field is inhomogeneous in the direction of displacement. This additional force has not been taken into account in conventional magnetohydrodynamic theory. In the particular case of tokamaks, this induced surface current effect has two impacts on vertical nearly rigid displacements. First, there arises an additional restoring force and a positive contribution to the change in potential energy when the externally applied field is inhomogeneous in the vertical direction. A special design of poloidal field coils can thus provide new means for vertical position control in tokamaks, which is also the case with strongly elongated cross sections. Second, an earlier simplified model, in which the plasma is represented by a line current interacting with the currents of the external coil system, has to be modified since the plasma is a highly conducting body of finite size.