Koeberg reactor has to be taken offline for another 200 days

[SilverCode]

The risk is if Koeberg has a meltdown the entire Cape Town, and peninsula will be a no go zone. So draw a circle of about 100 around Koeberg. Depending on the fallout zone as well, although the immediate danger zone will be a little smaller. But the orange light and darker will be the areas that will have to be totally evacuated and no one will be allowed to go into those zones, ever again.

Property market in Helderberg looking pretty good right now

 

[borro]

Must fix it nice

 

[Rkootknir]

What is a thermal watt?

The power of the heat generated which is quoted in MWt.

This thermal power is then used to generate steam which is used to power a turbine which is used to power a generator. None of these transmissions is near 100% efficient so the electric power generated is always lower than the thermal power. Koeberg for example has thermal power of around 2 700MW per reactor and (net) electric power of around 950 MW per reactor

 

[Gandalf123]

A sentence of the article reads: "Units 1 and 2 were commissioned and commenced operation a year apart, in 1884 and 1985 respectively." That is, they were commissioned more like 101 years apart, and knowing our current government, I think we can expect unit 2 to come back on line in the year 2125. That is if we have a country left at that point.

 

[Johnatan56]

how could you possibly know the average post 11 construction is "10-20" when only 12 years have passed since 2011?
you ask for the impossible, first you need a reactor to have started construction post-2011, that's already an insanely short list

There is a list though.

and the speediest builders, aka Japan, have not started construction on any reactors post-2011, so there is no data point, any average would be meaningless given the lack of data points

So they have no modern nuclear reactors with ruling post Fukushima.

what we do however know is:
- as recently as 2004 "Hamaoka 5" was completed in less than 4 years

Hamaoka 5 was July 2000 till Jan 2005, so 4.5 years, being more than that, and that's still pre 2010.

- as recently as 2011 "Tomari 3" was completed in 3 years

That's definitely wrong, it was built 1985-1989.
You're talking about the restart, where:

A separate request to permanently decommission the plant was rejected by the court, according to court documents. The Tomari facility has been fully offline since 2012.
The ruling comes amid calls by some Japanese politicians to quickly restart its fleet of shuttered nuclear reactors, as the nation faces a power supply crunch this summer and the upcoming winter. The country shut down all of its nuclear power plants following the 2011 Fukushima disaster, and only a handful have restarted under new safety rules.
The court ruled that the Tomari nuclear reactors do not have a safeguard facility against tsunamis and that the utility has not shown adequate safety measures for its spent atomic fuel.

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

There is a list though.

So they have no modern nuclear reactors with ruling post Fukushima.

Hamaoka 5 was July 2000 till Jan 2005, so 4.5 years, being more than that, and that's still pre 2010.

That's definitely wrong, it was built 1985-1989.
You're talking about the restart, where:

Tomari 1 was 1989
Tomari 2 was 1991
Tomari 3, as I already said, was 2009

 

[Adeptus Mechanicus]

The risk is if Koeberg has a meltdown the entire Cape Town, and peninsula will be a no go zone. So draw a circle of about 100 around Koeberg. Depending on the fallout zone as well, although the immediate danger zone will be a little smaller. But the orange light and darker will be the areas that will have to be totally evacuated and no one will be allowed to go into those zones, ever again.

Pushing for a job writing more scare mongering articles for MyBB?

 

[Yskasmetnstoof]

...is called Gwede.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

all it takes is one little breach, or one careless cadre, and the results wont be pleasant.

 

[Adeptus Mechanicus]

It is not immediately clear why Eskom and/or the NNR would require yet another 200-day shutdown. However, Eskom has indicated to EE Business Intelligence that:

Outage 127 is a planned long-duration maintenance outage (in accordance with our production plan) which will be of 200 days duration, wherein we are planning to perform identified maintenance and inspection activities including, for example, the routine 10-yearly containment integrated leak rate test.

Ummm....seems pretty clear to me.

I see we are still trying hard to manufacture outrage. If loadshedding was not at the level it is now then this "news" would not even be considered newsworthy.

 

[medicnick83]

Today there was an exercise at Koeberg

 

[qscwbt]

There is a massive construction mafia in SA and ANC has allowed forced developers , contractors to use 30 % local unskilled labor.

Now imagine those num nuts working on Koeberg.

 

[itareanlnotani]

Koeberg Unit 1 currently has welding problems on some of the non-critical lines. Some have failed their X-ray tests several times. There is also concrete to be replaced that was damaged when removing the old SG's. Looks like this Outage will finish some time early October 2023 according to the site grapevine.

Refuelling with what though?

Westinghouse isn't allowed to sell us fuel at the moment, and Areva (Framatome) isn't certified for Unit 1's current fuel, only unit 2.

DMRE promises urgency as Koeberg seeks to secure ongoing supply of Westinghouse fuel

The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) says it is working with other departments to expedite negotiations on a new nuclear cooperation agreement with the US, following the expiry of a previous agreement, with implications for the supply of nuclear fuel to Eskom’s Koeberg power...

m.engineeringnews.co.za

America is holding this as a bit of a see what happens when you **** with us at the moment, alongside AGOA etc.