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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.”
D.L. Henderson, R.R. Peterson, G.A. Moses
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1396-1401
Environment and Safety | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A39962
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Radioactivity and biological dose calculations have been performed for the target chamber of the Target Development Facility (TDF). Two conventional shield designs are considered. One has the target chamber submerged 3 m from the surface of a borated water pool, the other has the chamber surrounded by approximately 250 cm of concrete. The first wall materials, Al-6061 and 2-1/4 Cr-1 Mo steel and the ion beam targets, one made from BeO2 and W and the other from CH2 and Au, are investigated. Shielding designs are presented that reduce the dose from each of these choices of shield, first wall and target material to acceptable levels.