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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.”
Eiji Kako, Ritoku Ando, Makoto Ichimura, Yuichi Ogawa, Tsuneo Amano, Tetsuo Watari
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 12 | Number 2 | September 1987 | Pages 293-309
Plasma Heating Systems | doi.org/10.13182/FST87-A11963787
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The ion cyclotron range of frequencies antenna design for the R tokamak (a proposal by the Institute of Plasma Physics, Nagoya University) is described. The design involves three types of antennas: a standard loop antenna, a panel heater antenna, and a waveguide antenna for ion Bernstein wave heating (IBWH). The standard loop antenna is made of aluminum alloy and has a simple structure because it has to be installed under radioactive conditions by deuterium-tritium neutrons. A new type of antenna called a panel heater antenna has been designed for high-power heating. It has a wide radiation area and is able to select a parallel wave number k‖. The feasibility of the waveguide antenna is also discussed in association with IBWH. The radiation from the aperture of the double ridge waveguide is estimated in a model experiment, where calculated surface plasma impedance is simulated by a dielectric load.