Eskom’s big Koeberg problem

  • Thread starter Thread starter Shaun Jacobs
  • Start date Start date
dualmeister said:
Let's just say some parts arrived from France and did not fit.
Kind of like the trains :laugh:
Click to expand...
I thought the turbines came from China after Westinghouse got kicked out?
www.news24.com

R5 billion Koeberg chaos | City Press

Nuclear firms at loggerheads over Eskom’s ‘unlawful’ Koeberg tender award as the electricity giant contests court ruling.
www.news24.com www.news24.com
www.news24.com

Dropped generator for Koeberg on track to arrive in December, Eskom tells Parliament | Business

Eskom expects to meet the December deadline to get a steam generator that suffered minor damage when it was dropped at a Chinese factory delivered to Koeberg.
www.news24.com www.news24.com
 
porchrat said:
You're kidding right?

How much coal do you think a power station goes through in a single day?
Click to expand...
I know there is a big difference, but I think emissions are measured for Eskom only. So maybe LS is not even hitting emission targets. I remember flying over CPT on a wind still day during a long LS session and saw the air pollution to be really bad.
 
I'm guessing Koeberg is staying offline until 2024, no? That will hurt the ANC voter count.

Let's vote out these goons next election please?
 
sdrawk said:
I'm guessing Koeberg is staying offline until 2024, no? That will hurt the ANC voter count.

Let's vote out these goons next election please?
Click to expand...
It's worse:
Koeberg’s operating licence expires in July 2024, after which it must close unless the plant has been refurbished and relicensed.
Click to expand...
 
Benedict A55h0le said:
I know there is a big difference
Click to expand...
That's an incredible understatement.

Benedict A55h0le said:
but I think emissions are measured for Eskom only. So maybe LS is not even hitting emission targets. I remember flying over CPT on a wind still day during a long LS session and saw the air pollution to be really bad.
Click to expand...
That's a very scientific approach you've got there.

Also what do you mean "during a long LS session"? You realise the entire city isn't being simultaneously cut right?
 
porchrat said:
That's an incredible understatement.


That's a very scientific approach you've got there.

Also what do you mean "during a long LS session"? You realise the entire city isn't being simultaneously cut right?
Click to expand...
I am not claiming anything scientific. It was during stage 6, the air seemed really dirty. I think Eskom is getting some emissions leeway because generators are not taken into account.
 
Benedict A55h0le said:
I am not claiming anything scientific. It was during stage 6, the air seemed really dirty. I think Eskom is getting some emissions leeway because generators are not taken into account.
Click to expand...
I think you'll find generators are largely insignificant when compared to even motor vehicle emissions, let alone the emissions of power stations consuming multiple kilotons of coal per day.

The idea that they're even remotely comparable is just... wow.
 
Benedict A55h0le said:
I think there is nothing that can fix Eskom. Coalition politics and even pure DA will not be able to.
Click to expand...
Only when race is removed and when a black man can take instruction from a white man without getting offended because no whitey is allowed to tell him anything anymore since apartheid ended is when eskom can be fixed.
 
Benedict A55h0le said:
I know there is a big difference, but I think emissions are measured for Eskom only. So maybe LS is not even hitting emission targets. I remember flying over CPT on a wind still day during a long LS session and saw the air pollution to be really bad.
Click to expand...
Cape Town always looks like that when the wind is not blowing. Nothing to do with LS, more to do with people using fires on the Cape Flats, which lies in a geographical depression, for cooking and heat. That is why the South Easter is called the Cape Doctor, as it blows all that away
 
Kgosiento is working. As is the rest of the Leaders of the New Dawn :ROFL:
 
dualmeister said:
Let's just say some parts arrived from France and did not fit.
Kind of like the trains :laugh:
Click to expand...
More like - lets just say Eskom was supposed to prep, and didn't. We got utterly hosed on that too financially.

French got here, were a bit shocked that nothing was ready. We ended up paying them a large multiple of million's USD for breach of contract.

R950 million + R650 million and counting. Or R1.6billion rands of taxpayer money pissed away.

businesstech.co.za

Eskom hit with nearly R1 billion fine

Eskom has been ordered to pay French firm Framatome R950 million.
businesstech.co.za businesstech.co.za

Yes, you should be unfuckinghappy.

There is also the DOE ****up - where we pissed off the American's, so no haz fuel to refuel.
www.dailymaverick.co.za

A new look into why the US blocked exports of nuclear fuel components to Koeberg

%%excerpt%% In December, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission blocked the supply of nuclear fuel components for use in Koeberg.
www.dailymaverick.co.za www.dailymaverick.co.za

2024 lots of chickens coming home to roost with regards to Koeberg. i'm telling you...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X