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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.”
G. Paquignon, D. Brisset, B. Cathala, V. Lamaison, D. Chatain, P. Bonnay, E. Bouleau, J. P. Perin
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 45 | Number 2 | March 2004 | Pages 282-285
Technical Paper | Target Fabrication | doi.org/10.13182/FST04-A462
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The Laser Megajoule cryotarget positioner will be used to set the cryogenic targets at the center of the experimental vacuum chamber. It will consist of a 6-meter carbon boom at the end of which a target will be held by a cryogenic grip at 20 K. In the French concept, the targets will be transferred at 20 K to the cryotarget positioner using another cryostat. Some of the specifications are very ambitious. Indeed, the targets must be positioned with a high accuracy (+/-5 m), the temperature must be controlled with a very good stability and the cryostat must have a 5 day autonomy. To reach these requirements, some technical solutions have been considered. To validate these choices, a scale one prototype has been studied and built at the Low Temperature Laboratory (SBT) of CEA/Grenoble (France). We present here the first results obtained with this prototype.