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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.A. Finn, E.H. Van Deventer
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 15 | Number 2 | March 1989 | Pages 1343-1348
Tritium Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A39875
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
To evaluate tritium oxidation as a means of converting permeating tritium to tritiated water on stainless steel, two series of experiments were done in which the tritiated water yield was determined. The first examined the effect of a reduced tritium permeation rate; the second examined the effect of the presence of different metal oxides. A reduced tritium permeation rate reduced the yield of tritiated water. The presence of Fe3O4 resulted in an increased tritiated water yield, >99% at 500 ppm oxygen. The Fe3O4 was the iron species on a metal oxide composed of large islands, heavily enriched in iron, uniformly scattered across a fine surface oxide that was enriched in chromium.