Scary beyond all reason

[Pilgrim]

Eskom says that Koeberg power station's second unit has been "successfully returned to service" after it shut itself down on Thursday afternoon.

Eskom spokesperson Fani Zulu said while he was not sure what had caused the unit to shut down, technicians had been able to rectify the problem and the unit was back online early on Saturday morning.

"It's up and running again," Zulu said.

He said the unit was "ramping up its output" and was due to be working at full power by this morning.

Zulu said it appeared the unit had tripped and shut itself down after detecting a fault.

Unit Two's Thursday afternoon shut-down meant both of Koeberg's units were out of service - Unit One was shut down at the end of January for what Eskom described as "scheduled refuelling and maintenance".

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Why do I feel there is something wrong with that? You don't know what went wrong, you admit the system shut itself down after it detected a fault, yet you turn it on again?

 

[bekdik]

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Why do I feel there is something wrong with that? You don't know what went wrong, you admit the system shut itself down after it detected a fault, yet you turn it on again?

What would wish them to do? They say that they cannot detect any problems.

 

[CathJ]

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Why do I feel there is something wrong with that? You don't know what went wrong, you admit the system shut itself down after it detected a fault, yet you turn it on again?

Actually, he said that he didn't know what had gone wrong, not that nobody knew.

 

[Mila]

But radiation is easy to detect? NOt so?

//starts digging bombshelter...

 

[R13...]

Eskom spokesperson Fani Zulu said while he was not sure what had caused the unit to shut down, technicians had been able to rectify the problem and the unit was back online early on Saturday morning.

Zulu is clearly a man of contradictions.
How do you solve a problem you are unable to detect.
A nuclear power plant is not MS Windows where it gives you a problem & you simply hit Restart! When the safety shutdown kick in it stays kicked in until the fault is cleared & these things have very sophisticated safety systems with full alarming & logs.

 

[Pilgrim]

Zulu is clearly a man of contradictions.
How do you solve a problem you are unable to detect.
A nuclear power plant is not MS Windows where it gives you a problem & you simply hit Restart! When the safety shutdown kick in it stays kicked in until the fault is cleared & these things have very sophisticated safety systems with full alarming & logs.

Sorry, I just had a mental picture of some dude going "hey, lets just turn off this warning and fire this baby up again!"

My problem is even when the stupid idiot at top does not know exactly what went wrong they will still say "a bolt fell into the reactor" or something.

Just shrugging and saying, hey it works again...

 

[Paulr]

Well, at least we know the safety systems work!

/oh bugger - hopefully that wasn't the "problem" that they "fixed".....