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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.”
S. Golan, R. Schleicher, G. Snyder, M. LaBar, C. Snyder
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 20 | Number 4 | December 1991 | Pages 631-635
Nuclear Desalting | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A11946910
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The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) co-sponsored a project to evaluate the potential for a Modular High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor (MHTGR) to meet the growing needs for water and power in Southern California. The concept employs an MHTGR coupled to a high temperature turbine-steam system with an 11″ Hg turbine backpressure. Turbine exhaust heat at 165°F is delivered to a Low-Temperature Horizontal Tube Multi-Effect Distillation (LT-MED) process. A plant consisting of four 350 MWt reactor modules, two turbine-steam trains and eight LT-MED modules is capable of producing 466 MWe of net power and 106 million gallons per day of fresh water. Based on private financing for power generation and public financing of water generation, a plant starting up by the turn of the century would produce power at about $0.05/kWh and water at about $0.50/m3.