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The division was organized to promote the advancement of knowledge of the use of particle accelerator technologies for nuclear and other applications. It focuses on production of neutrons and other particles, utilization of these particles for scientific or industrial purposes, such as the production or destruction of radionuclides significant to energy, medicine, defense or other endeavors, as well as imaging and diagnostics.
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Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
August 4–7, 2024
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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.”
G.R. Edwards, D.K. Matlock, B.A. Eberhard
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 937-943
Material Engineering — Fabrication and Testing | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40154
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The embrittlement of 2 1/4Cr-1Mo steel by lithium or lead-lithium liquids can occur when loading conditions and microstructural strengthening effects limit plastic relaxation at points of high stress, and a critical liquid metal induced embrittlement (LMIE) stress is reached. This paper presents the LMIE results of both constant displacement rate uniaxial tensile testing and fatigue crack propagation studies. The temperature for the onset of LMIE susceptibility at a given localized strain rate is shown to be predictable based on a critical value of flow stress, calculated by means of the Zener-Holloman parameter.