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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.”
Jost-Henrich Feist, W7-X Construction Team
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 46 | Number 1 | July 2004 | Pages 192-199
Technical Paper | Stellarators | doi.org/10.13182/FST04-A555
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) stellarator is the largest fusion experiment presently under construction. The main objective of W7-X is to prove the reactor relevance of a stellarator, based on the HELIAS principle, as an alternative to the tokamak. Details of the optimization criteria and the scientific and technical objectives can be found in several publications. At present, the construction of W7-X is close to the start of the assembly. The first superconducting nonplanar coil is undergoing acceptance testing, the first sector of the plasma vessel has been leak tested, the main parts for the outer vessel have been fabricated, the first ports are close to delivery, and many rigs for the assembly are already installed. The assembly started at the end of 2003 with the attachment of saddle coils for magnetic diagnostics on the plasma vessel and will last until 2009 when the torus will be closed. Start of plasma operation is scheduled for the middle of 2010.