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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.”
F. Bredice, I. Deha†, F. Giammanco, A. Salvetti, D. P. Singh, M. Vaselli, E. Panarella, S. del Tredici
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 3 | May 1995 | Pages 215-220
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30383
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In a study that is preliminary to a spherical pinch experiment, attention is focused on divergent and convergent shock waves. An intense laser beam is used to initiate a gas breakdown to generate a divergent shock wave at the center of a spherical cell; the temporal evolution of the shock front is tracked by holographic interferometry. A convergent shock wave is produced from the laser-induced evaporation of a metallic layer present on the internal surface of a hemi-spherical cell; a framing camera is employed to obtain streak pictures. Theoretical models are used to interpret the experimental results.