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This division promotes the development and timely introduction of fusion energy as a sustainable energy source with favorable economic, environmental, and safety attributes. The division cooperates with other organizations on common issues of multidisciplinary fusion science and technology, conducts professional meetings, and disseminates technical information in support of these goals. Members focus on the assessment and resolution of critical developmental issues for practical fusion energy applications.
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August 4–7, 2024
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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.”
Wolfgang Eglin, Ulrich Krugmann, Horst A. Weisshäupl, Werner Scholtyssek
Nuclear Technology | Volume 126 | Number 2 | May 1999 | Pages 143-152
Technical Paper | Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT99-A2963
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In the development of the European pressurized water reactor (EPR), a new, challenging safety goal is the requirement to restrict the consequences of even severe accidents to the immediate vicinity of the plant.To deal with the consequences of a severe accident means to deal with different phenomena of an assumed core meltdown accident. Specific controlling and mitigating measures and dedicated design features that will cope with these phenomena are intended to be incorporated into the safety design of the EPR.To prove that the assumptions made by the EPR project are in line with the results of research and development, a first cooperation between Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, the vendor Siemens Company, and a consortium of utilities was started in 1993 and produced provisional results in 1995. Further investigations of severe accident phenomena are necessary to verify the controlling and mitigating design features of the EPR.