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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.”
Kentaro Ochiai, Yury Velzilov, Takeo Nishitani, Paola Batistoni, Klaus Seidel
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 48 | Number 1 | July-August 2005 | Pages 378-381
Technical Paper | Tritium Science and Technology - Tritium Measurement, Monitoring, and Accountancy | doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A947
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Tritium benchmark experiments with D-T neutron are a key issue to verify the tritium production rate (TPR) of the fusion blanket. The most useful method to measure the TPR in the neutron benchmark experiments is the liquid scintillation counting with Li2CO3 pellet. Ten years ago, the method of Li2CO3 pellet has been sufficiently verified the accuracy by means of D-T fast neutron irradiation and it was concluded within 10%. However, on the recent breeding blanket design, tritium is dominantly produced with the thermal neutron made with the scattering of D-T neutron and also the accuracy of the tritium production rate is requested below 10%. Therefore, previous verification is not sufficient for the recent blanket design and it is necessary to carry out the activity of the verification again. The JAERI, ENEA and TUD began to carry out the tritium benchmark experiment to verify the tritium production rate for the recent fusion blanket.