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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.”
K.V. Lotov, A.A. Ivanov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 35 | Number 1 | January 1999 | Pages 353-357
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST99-A11963883
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The fast ions produced inside a mirror trap by neutral beam injection could form periodic short-lived density peaks near a turning point if the injection energy is properly modulated in time. Achievable parameters of thus formed fast ion bunches are analyzed in this paper. The theory is illustrated by estimates for the neutron source based on a gas-dynamic trap. The bunching of deuterium and tritium ions can produce periodic short bursts of neutron radiation with the intensity 1.5 times higher than the average level. The modulation of the neutron flux could extend the field of application for the neutron source. Also, the bunching could serve as a precise plasma diagnostics in mirror traps.