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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.”
S. Murakami, H. Yamada, M. Sasao, M. Isobe, T. Ozaki, T. Saida, P. Goncharov, J. F. Lyon, M. Osakabe, T. Seki, Y. Takeiri, Y. Oka, K. Tumori, K. Ikeda, T. Mutoh, R. Kumazawa, K. Saito, Y. Torii, T. Watari, A. Wakasa, K. Y. Watanabe, H. Funaba, M. Yokoyama, H. Maassberg, C. D. Beidler, A. Fukuyama, K. Itoh, K. Ohkubo, O. Kaneko, A. Komori, O. Motojima, LHD Experimental Group
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 46 | Number 2 | September 2004 | Pages 241-247
Technical Papers | Stellarators | doi.org/10.13182/FST04-A561
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Confinement of energetic ions from neutral beam injection heating is investigated by changing the magnetic field configuration of the Large Helical Device from a classical heliotron configuration to an optimized neoclassical transport configuration to a level typical of "advanced stellarators." The experimental results show the highest count rate of fast neutral particles not in the optimized configuration but in the inward-shifted one. The GNET simulation results show a relatively good agreement with the experimental results, and they also show a lower energy loss rate in the optimized configuration. This contradiction can be explained by the radial profile of the energetic ions. The relatively good agreement between experimental and simulation results suggest that ripple transport (neoclassical) dominates the energetic ion confinement and that the optimization process is effective in improving confinement in helical systems.