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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.”
D C Robinson, R Buttery, I Cook, M Cox, M Gryaznevich, T C Hender, P Knight, A W Morris, M R O'Brien, C Ribeiro, A Sykes, T N Todd, M Walsh, H R Wilson
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 1360-1366
Innovative Approaches to Fusion Energy | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A11963138
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The low aspect ratio or spherical tokamak offers the prospect of burning plasmas in a compact simple system at a lower cost than in conventional tokamaks. The promising results obtained on START and other small spherical tokamaks have led to the approval of higher current devices at the MA level where the key issues of operational limits, confinement, plasma exhaust and steady state potential can be tested under more demanding conditions. From such devices it is a comparatively small step to a burning plasma and such devices have already been proposed. The compact nature of the spherical tokamak and its steady state potential make it ideally suited as a component test facility and also as a low cost, small unit size power plant capable of advancing the timetable for fusion exploitation.