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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.”
Frederick A. Haas, Anantanarayanan Thyagaraja
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 31 | Number 2 | March 1997 | Pages 159-168
Technical Paper | Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST97-A30818
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An important issue infusion power plant design involves the effect of sawteeth on power transients and ash removal. A model was previously presented for sawtooth oscillations in tokamaks based on a thermal instability mechanism mediated by turbulence in the q < 1 core. This model has been validated against current machines such as the Joint European Torus (JET) and the Tokamak Experiment for Technol.ogy-Oriented Research (TEXTOR). Here, it is adapted to include effects of alpha particle heating in a reacting plasma. The goal is to study the interaction between fusion reactions and the sawtooth turbulence dynamics. The alpha particle heating rate function is sensitive to temperature variations and could possibly result in a thermal instability mechanism for amplifying sawtooth temperature fluctuations under typical conditions. Taking International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER)-like conditions as an example, calculations are performed to illustrate this generic behavior. These conditions suggest that while the sawteeth are effective in helium ash removal from the q < 1 region, they can produce significant spikes in the alpha power.