Medupi explosion caused by mistake technicians made trying to find external leak

Has to be them cubans....

 
That's some damage. The end shields that house the bearings have been blown off which means the rotor is resting on the stator and the shaft connecting it to the turbine will be bent. The turbine bearings will be impacted too.

It's a complete removal to assess all the damage and to repair. That's out of action for a long time.
 
De Ruyter not there to organise damage control. He's got Covid. Gonna be chaos this week.......
 
No sooner do they give us a "rah-rah" for all commissioned than troubles come a knocking :/ can our Eskom engineers ever get anything right? Or are we doomed to this kind of competence? :(
 
Technically it could happen at any time, I mean Medupi hasn't really been working properly the entire time.

No it can't happen if there is no leak and the hydrogen and oxygen mixture is below the Lower Explosive Level (LEL), saturated and above the Upper Explosive Level, mixed with another gas or no oxygen is in the mixture. Somebody managed to get oxygen into the system.
 
No it can't happen if there is no leak and the hydrogen and oxygen mixture is below the Lower Explosive Level (LEL), saturated and above the Upper Explosive Level, mixed with another gas or no oxygen is in the mixture. Somebody managed to get oxygen into the system.
I'm talking about load shedding
 
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