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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.”
Jeffery D. Lewins
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 241-252
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A68
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Charged particles traveling through a varying magnetic field are focused as by a magnetic lens. When this lens has axial symmetry, there is conservation of a generalized form of angular momentum that leads to pretty results with practical advantages. Attention is directed to such properties, which may serve as a source of problems and results in dynamics as well as an illustration of classical Hamiltonian mechanics and the significance of canonical momentum. A new treatment of the development in vector form is given together with a careful interpretation of what should be understood as an enclosing trajectory. The resulting constants of motion can usefully be employed to decrease the order of the system equations to be solved. A mathematical model suitable for class work is given to demonstrate these properties.