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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.”
Mitsuru Ohta
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 404-410
Fusion Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A11962975
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The Japanese fusion program is based on the 3rd phase basic program of fusion research and development enacted in June 1992. The main objectives of the program are to achieve the self-ignition condition and to produce a long-burning plasma by constructing a fusion experimental reactor, which corresponds to ITER at present. In addition, the program aims at developing the basic fusion technology needed for constructing the prototype fusion reactor. Much effort is devoted to the ITER project to achieve the above-mentioned objectives.
Most of the technologies needed for constructing a fusion reactor will be developed during the engineering design activity, the construction, operation and shutdown of ITER. Fusion material usable under 100dpa, some safety issues, cost-saving technology and some other technologies will remain to be solved.
Next-step fusion research should be directed to the study how a commercial fusion reactor could become less expensive and environmentally safer, on the basis of plasma physics and technology established in the ITER project.