Details about Koeberg radioactive contamination events

[mylesillidge]

Radioactive contamination at Koeberg nuclear power station

Impower energy expert Matthew Cruise has dismissed concerns over recent radioactive contamination events at Eskom's Koeberg Nuclear Power Station.

Speaking to 702, Cruise explained that the contamination events occurred when power to the ventilation tents surrounding radioactive equipment was lost during maintenance.

 

[wingnut771]

Do an article about why Koeberg is running at 650MW out of 1800MW.

 

[Nerfherder]

Least favorite type of article....

 

[wingnut771]

Station build-up for the last 7 days - Eskom Data Portal

This shows how resources were used to build-up the demand over the past 7 days, and it includes both generation and demand side resources that Eskom has contracts with.

www.eskom.co.za

 

[Justanotherguybythesea]

Note that this release is only a few minutes of the radiation released at any coal fired plant, even with working flue scrubbers. the ash they dump each day would be, if it was made at a nuclear plant, be regarded as close to high level waste, and would be required to be stored for centuries in a special repository. Instead it is used to make cement blocks, cement and you are living in it.

 

[DarkStarMonday]

 

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

Oh snap, I guess I need to eat a few bananas and get a few micro-sieverts of gamma into my tummy

 

[Lupus]

Do an article about why Koeberg is running at 650MW out of 1800MW.

Well one unit is being refueled and going routine maintenance, perhaps it doesn't need to run at the full 900?

 

[LazyLion]

How do you lose power at a Power Station?

 

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

How do you lose power at a Power Station?

Easy, all the employees sponge leccy by plugging in their devices at work to charge.

 

[wingnut771]

Well one unit is being refueled and going routine maintenance, perhaps it doesn't need to run at the full 900?

Why not, its cheaper than coal and I've been hearing its being refuelled for the whole year now.

 

[Lupus]

Why not, its cheaper than coal and I've been hearing its being refuelled for the whole year now.

Who knows, they apparently have 3500 in cold storage.

 

[wingnut771]

Who knows, they apparently have 3500 in cold storage.

They should save us some money and make it 4000, and then 5000 when they finish "refuelling",

 

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

Why not, its cheaper than coal and I've been hearing its being refuelled for the whole year now.

Yes it takes the whole year to do when the ANC is involved... KFC isn't cheap anymore you should know that.

 

[wingnut771]

Yes it takes the whole year to do when the ANC is involved... KFC isn't cheap anymore you should know that.

Yoh, the ANC cronies are refuelling the reactor? I would have thought its westinghouse that would do it.

 

[konfab]

How do you lose power at a Power Station?

“The power supply to those portable ventilation tents failed and allowed some of the particles to drift out of the tents and into the surrounding area,” he said.

If you go and plug a faulty appliance into a plug at Koeberg, it will trip the local breaker.

 

[Flanders]

"1 microsievert"

 

[oros]

Eskom, what's next???

 

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

If you go and plug a faulty appliance into a plug at Koeberg, it will trip the local breaker.

The same will also happen if you use the "intelligence increaser" trick, of putting a length of wire from the live and neutral pins into a plugtop, attach the L wire to your head and the N wire to your foot, flip the switch to ON and you should be smarter than you were before.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

Eskom, what's next???

ADR is evil and counter revolutionary.