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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.”
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 37 | Number 2 | March 2000 | Pages 95-111
Kinetic Theory | doi.org/10.13182/FST00-A11963204
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In this overview, the main arguments for a kinetic description of a classical, non-relativistic many-body system are reviewed. The need and strategy for a kinetic description of plasma particles are discussed. The Vlasov, the Landau-Fokker-Planck, and the Balescu-Lenard equations are presented as the most useful kinetic equations for the particle distribution functions. In the second part, some simple applications are discussed. First, collision frequencies are derived. Second, it is shown that in the mean field approximation a linearization of the initial value problem can already give interesting insights into the (collective) dynamic behaviors. Third, quasi-linear and weak turbulence theories are discussed. Fourth, it is argued why in many cases a reduction to a plasmadynamic (fluid) description is appropriate, and popular truncations are summarized. Finally, the generality of the statistical methods is demonstrated on the example of magnetic field line diffusion.