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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.”
Daniel Schirmann, Mike Tobin
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 512-519
National Ignition Facility | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A11962991
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
This paper describes the main features of the Laser Megajoule (LMJ) an equivalent project in France to the NIF project in USA. It has been sized to achieve ignition of a small amount of DT and to produce fusion energy in a laboratory with a significant gain, by imploding small capsules filled with a DT mixture. The paper explains the main issues to design the target area because of the large emissions of neutrons, x-rays and debris due to the explosion of the target. We show that Phebus in France as well as Nova in USA can be used as test beds to study the threats expected on the first wall of the target chamber due to the large burst of neutrons, x-rays and shrapnels emitted from the exploding target.