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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.”
H. Dworschak, C. Malara, I. Ricapito, G. Cambi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 3 | October 1995 | Pages 578-585
Tritium Processing | Proceedings of the Fifth Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology in Fission, Fusion, and Isotopic Applications Belgirate, Italy May 28-June 3, 1995 | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30465
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The present paper compares, in terms of safety and reliability, two different designs for tritium recovery from DEMO Pb-17Li water-cooled blanket. The first one, based on tritium recovery from Pb-17Li outside the blanket units, tritium removal from the purge gas of the extracting system and tritium permeation barriers towards the coolant, is overviewed and analyzed especially with regard compactness and reliability. In the alternative option, tritium generated in the blanket is free to permeate into the cooling water and is recovered by the water detritiation system, avoiding, therefore, the external tritium extractor from Pb-17Li and permeation barriers, the technological feasibility of which is not yet proven on industrial plant scale. A safety analysis of this alternative design has been carried out both for normal operation and accident conditions. The results, here presented and discussed, have shown that this alternative option seems to be feasible and worthy of successive research and investigations.