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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.”
J. A. Mowrey, P. R. Boylan, S. I. Abdel-Khalik
Nuclear Technology | Volume 124 | Number 3 | December 1998 | Pages 223-242
Technical Paper | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT98-A2922
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A RELAP5/MOD3.1 model of a boiling water reactor and an interface originally developed as a real-time test platform for the Browns Ferry Unit 2 feedwater control system and turbine governors have been expanded to include feedwater heater systems and controls and to change the reactor recirculation pump controls from the current fluid-coupled drive to a future variable speed drive. The expanded model includes feedwater heater shell-side components, associated piping, steam supplies, and condensers, and allows simulation of the Foxboro digital feedwater heater level control system. The model was updated to RELAP5/MOD3.1.1, while the interface was expanded to handle additional communications and operator actions. The simulated feedwater heater level controls were tuned and benchmarked; benchmarking was performed against steady-state data at various power levels from plant heat balance data. After the model was benchmarked, various transients were simulated to identify potential flaws in the feedwater heater level control system.