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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.”
Gunzo Uchiyama, Shinobu Hotoku, Sachio Fujine, Mitsuru Maeda
Nuclear Technology | Volume 122 | Number 2 | May 1998 | Pages 222-227
Technical Paper | Enrichment | doi.org/10.13182/NT98-A2864
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The kinetics of the reaction between Np(VI) and butyraldehyde isomers in nitric acid solution was studied to find flow-sheet conditions of the Np separation process from U and Pu. Iso-butyraldehyde was found to have a higher reduction rate than n-butyraldehyde. The former reduction rate at T = 283 to 323 K is described by the following equation:-d[Np(VI)]/dt= 6.0 × 106exp(-4.1 × 103/T)× [Np(VI)][iso-C3H7CHO]0[H+] (M/min).The latter reduction rate is described by the following equation:-d[Np(VI)]/dt= 4.2 × 104exp(-3.4 × 103/T)× [Np(VI)][n-C3H7CHO]0[H+] (M/min).
