Eskom has shut down Koeberg's Unit 1 generator

porchrat said:
Sounds like they have a backup system that kicked in, but they need redundancy so they've shut it down to repair. Seems perfectly reasonable to me.

Also so weird hearing someone say that Koeberg has been down a lot.

The only real downtime Koeberg has had recently that I can recall is the end-of-life extension work that's been happening, which is perfectly understandable and necessary. When it comes to technical faults Koeberg is extremely reliable, even by international standards.
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Not weird at all. The usual ID10TS are here with mushroom cloud meme's and uninformed Koeberg comments. It's to be expected.
 
TheMightyQuin said:
Not weird at all. The usual ID10TS are here with mushroom cloud meme's and uninformed Koeberg comments. It's to be expected.
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its the ONLY repeat ONLY Nuclear power station in Africa,
its to be expected if anything serious was to happen, we would all be promptly fsked

Chernobyl and Fukushima weren't exactly picnics.
 
Jet-Fighter7700 said:
its the ONLY repeat ONLY Nuclear power station in Africa,
its to be expected if anything serious was to happen, we would all be promptly fsked

Chernobyl and Fukushima weren't exactly picnics.
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Your overall ignorance about this particular nuclear installation and how it works, shows like your poor personality
 
Lupus said:
Stuck valve, steam stuff
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porchrat said:
Sounds like they have a backup system that kicked in, but they need redundancy so they've shut it down to repair. Seems perfectly reasonable to me.

Also so weird hearing someone say that Koeberg has been down a lot.

The only real downtime Koeberg has had recently that I can recall is the end-of-life extension work that's been happening, which is perfectly understandable and necessary. When it comes to technical faults Koeberg is extremely reliable, even by international standards.
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You guys are no fun.

Here's your punishment (give it 3 mins minimum listen):
 
Jet-Fighter7700 said:
its the ONLY repeat ONLY Nuclear power station in Africa,
its to be expected if anything serious was to happen, we would all be promptly fsked

Chernobyl and Fukushima weren't exactly picnics.
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Cause we can expect an earthquake and a massive tsunami any time soon in Cape Town? Plus you do know the total deaths due to those two nuclear incidents is less than 1 year of coal related deaths?
 
Also...
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I mean they could've just asked :p
 
Lupus said:
Cause we can expect an earthquake and a massive tsunami any time soon in Cape Town? Plus you do know the total deaths due to those two nuclear incidents is less than 1 year of coal related deaths?
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What do you think this "valve" does?

Is it like a bolt?
 
Jet-Fighter7700 said:
its the ONLY repeat ONLY Nuclear power station in Africa,
its to be expected if anything serious was to happen, we would all be promptly fsked

Chernobyl and Fukushima weren't exactly picnics.
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Chernobyl literally didn't have a containment building.
Fukushima didn't kill anyone directly. People died because of the unecessary evacuation.


As per the "rAdiaAtion"
People living in Fukushima prefecture are expected to be exposed to around 10 mSv over their entire lifetimes, while for those living further away the dose would be 0.2 mSv per year. The UNSCEAR conclusion reinforces the findings of several international reports to date, including one from the World Health Organization (WHO) that considered the health risk to the most exposed people possible: a postulated girl under one year of age living in Iitate or Namie that did not evacuate and continued life as normal for four months after the accident. Such a child's theoretical risk of developing any cancer would be increased only marginally, according to the WHO's analysi
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https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-security/safety-of-plants/fukushima-daiichi-accident#:~:text=People living in Fukushima prefecture,be 0.2 mSv per year.


In context, it is about a CT scan worth of radiation, for their whole life living in the area. The horror....
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Your arguement is comparing a 1950s car with a modern car in terms of safety features, and then concluding that all cars are inherently dangerous, we should ditch them and move back to horses and bicycles.
 
konfab said:
Chernobyl literally didn't have a containment building.
Fukushima didn't kill anyone directly. People died because of the unecessary evacuation.


As per the "rAdiaAtion"

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-security/safety-of-plants/fukushima-daiichi-accident#:~:text=People living in Fukushima prefecture,be 0.2 mSv per year.


In context, it is about a CT scan worth of radiation, for their whole life living in the area. The horror....
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Your arguement is comparing a 1950s car with a modern car in terms of safety features, and then concluding that all cars are inherently dangerous, we should ditch them and move back to horses and bicycles.
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Where was the international nuclear body watchamacallit when this power station was built with no containment building?
 
wingnut771 said:
What do you think this "valve" does?

Is it like a bolt?
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images
 
konfab said:
In context, it is about a CT scan worth of radiation, for their whole life living in the area. The horror....
Your arguement is comparing a 1950s car with a modern car in terms of safety features, and then concluding that all cars are inherently dangerous, we should ditch them and move back to horses and bicycles.
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so its totally safe then? people should go reclaim their homes, start farming again and the place should be buzzing with activity again,
both Chernobyl and the towns surrounding Fukushima?

there is a reason those places were evacuated, there is a reason nobody can live there again for the next couple centuries, its because of the half life that is measured in several generations, same why Nuke power isnt the end of our addiction to fossil fuelled power generation.

can it happen in Africa? absolutely, people simply dont want to go and crunch the numbers showing how much of CPT will have to be evacuated if Koeberg loses containment,
or something like Fukushima happens again.
 
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