The_Unbeliever
Honorary Master
It will be refuelled in January 2009, for those who wanted to know.
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VanZan
Senior Member
Refuelling of a unit (900 MW) at Koeberg is significant to the Western Cape as it will affect the stability of supply in that part of the country if something else also goes south.
AFAIK they never refuel both units at the same time. Eskom are currently experiencing problems with about 4000MW of their conventional (read coal) plant. That is more than 4 Koeberg equivalent units or about 7 large coal units (600-700MW/unit). So if everything else was OK, one unit at Koeberg is not a serious issue (The Koeberg process has been in place for decades and never before such a serious issue). But everything is not!
Skeptik
Banned
AFAIK, they are doing manitenance on one reactor and a refuel on the other. ie. Koeberg is down.
Both down?
medicnick83
Paramedic
What happens during the refueling stage if I may ask.
Moederloos
Honorary Master
medicnick83
Paramedic
No shyte sherlock! haha... but, what type of fuel?!?!
Moederloos
Honorary Master
Uranium?
medicnick83
Paramedic
Interesting:
The pebble bed reactor (PBR) is a design, revived by the South African utility, ESKOM, near the turn of the century. In the United States, the design and progress toward licensing appears to have slowed. Interest by Exelon, an early proponent, has waned.
Did we actually revive something good?
Found this on: http://www.nucleartourist.com/
The pebble bed reactor (PBR) is a design, revived by the South African utility, ESKOM, near the turn of the century. In the United States, the design and progress toward licensing appears to have slowed. Interest by Exelon, an early proponent, has waned.
Did we actually revive something good?
Found this on: http://www.nucleartourist.com/
New fuel gets put in!
Ah, thanks for clearing that up. Now I can finally update my blog
EchoZA
Expert Member
and what happens to the depleted uranium?
medicnick83
Paramedic
theratman
Honorary Master
the US use there depleted uranuim on their bullets,shells etc,which leaves radio active dust in the air,a war crime imo
http://www.iacenter.org/depleted/du.htm
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/95178_du12.shtml
medicnick83
Paramedic
I heard something about drivers of the M1A1 Abrams tanks suffer from diseases RE: the shells they fire. 
Telkomisaloser
Ninja
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The_Unbeliever
Honorary Master
Depleted uranium is very dense and is used for piercing armored vehicles, and is weakly radioactive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium
theratman
Honorary Master
still radioactive....
Robin Hood
Expert Member
The Chernobyl saga infected something like 9000+ ppl