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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.”
P. Agg, J.P. Krasznai, A.B. Antoniazzi, R.E. Massey, B. Fishbein, R. Mowat
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 3 | October 1995 | Pages 1097-1103
Tritium Properties and Interaction with Material | 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-A30553
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The behaviour of tritium in the body, as a result of intakes from contact with tritium contaminated surfaces and the subsequent radiation dose impact, is dependent on the nature of the tritium species. Research over the past few years has yielded important insight into the nature of tritiated species on surfaces exposed to elemental tritium. A significant drawback to understanding the relationship between tritium exposure and dose however is that most surface characterization data, reported in the literature, was generated at high temperature, whereas, exposure to tritiated surfaces occurs mostly at ambient temperature. In this paper we describe the results of characterization studies carried out at both ambient and high temperature. The well characterized stainless steel specimens were subsequently used in animal exposures.