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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.”
Weston M. Stacey
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 471-476
Nonelectrical Applications | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963657
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The physics and technology that is being developed for and that will be demonstrated in ITER [1] will be sufficient to make a very good neutron source, there are a number of potential ‘national missions’ for a good neutron source, and the further technology advances beyond ITER that would be required for a neutron source facility are essentially the same as the advances that would be required for an electrical energy producing fusion demonstration reactor. Some preliminary considerations are presented for an alternative pathway for fusion energy development, proceeding from the present through an international test reactor (ITER) stage to a fusion neutron source facility (or non-electrical applications) stage and finally to the deployment of fusion electrical power reactors. Recent studies of two types of fusion neutron source facilities for ‘national missions’ are reviewed as representative examples.