Eskom delays Koeberg refuelling and refurbishment outage

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Eskom delays critical Koeberg outage after warnings of imminent stage 7

Power utility Eskom has delayed the scheduled outage of a Koeberg nuclear power station unit to afford the utility "some time" to stabilise its power system.

Eskom spokesperson Sikonathi Mantshantsha confirmed the development in a short statement to the media on Thursday morning.
 
Let is BLOW

Basically draw about a 25-100km circle around it, and thats the area that needs to be evacuated
 
Pax said:
Run it till it breaks and cannot be repaired. Great solution! (Not!)
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Typical short-sightedness. It's time for everyone to accept we are in the situation we are in, and to move forward however difficult that is.

If it means no power for 10 hours a day for everyone for 12-18 months, then so be it. It's better than having no power for 6 hours a day for a month before everything collapses.
 
And we arent even considering the wind and the clouds yet, or the acid rain. Yip thats the end of the DA and the troublesome Cape for you.

Most likely the wind will blow in the direction of Langebaan and Hermanus.
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“In a worst-case scenario, the Koeberg evacuation plan would have to be implemented, and tens of thousands of people, possibly millions of people, would need to be evacuated. And since radioactive contamination can make an area uninhabitable for hundreds of years, where would all these people find housing? Or schools for their children?
 
Roger Banana said:
Typical short-sightedness. It's time for everyone to accept we are in the situation we are in, and to move forward however difficult that is.

If it means no power for 10 hours a day for everyone for 12-18 months, then so be it. It's better than having no power for 6 hours a day for a month before everything collapses.
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Move forward? The only move forward is to buy an off-grid solar system.
 
The solution to (radioactive) pollution is dilution. The Atlantic is rather big. :ROFL:
We can all joke about it but I trust the engineers there will turn off the reactor if an incident is potentially looming on the horizon
 
to afford the utility "some time" to stabilise its power system
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Well this makes perfect sense. If experience has taught us anything with Eskom it's that, as time goes on, Eskom's grid just gets more and more stable. They're definitely not setting ever-climbing records for the number of breakdown outages.
 
mypetcow said:
The solution to (radioactive) pollution is dilution. The Atlantic is rather big. :ROFL:
We can all joke about it but I trust the engineers there will turn off the reactor if an incident is potentially looming on the horizon
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Of course they will. They've handled power station maintenance and operations so responsibly and professionally up to this point without a hint of negligence.
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Corelli said:
“In a worst-case scenario, the Koeberg evacuation plan would have to be implemented, and tens of thousands of people, possibly millions of people, would need to be evacuated. And since radioactive contamination can make an area uninhabitable for hundreds of years, where would all these people find housing? Or schools for their children?
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The Eastern Cape where they perhaps came from?:unsure:
 
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