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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.”
Satoru Yoshimura, Koji Yamanaka, Shinichi Yamamoto
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 1 | January 2001 | Pages 378-381
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963485
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Internal magnetic probes are used for direct measurements of time-varying magnetic fields in a heating experiment of a field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasma by applying fast rising magnetic pulse. A large amplitude oscillation is detected by magnetic probes which are oriented with their axis in the azimuthal direction. The phase velocity of the oscillation in the direction parallel to the equilibrium magnetic field approximately agrees with the Alfvén velocity. The experimental results suggest that the shear Alfvén wave is excited. The excited shear Alfvén wave may play an important role in the heating of the FRC plasma.