'Technical fault' shuts down Koeberg unit

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'Technical fault' shuts down Koeberg unit
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July 22 2008 at 08:09AM

Eskom carried out a "controlled shutdown" of Unit 2 at the Koeberg on Monday night because of a technical fault in the electricity generating side of the power station.

Because of the fault, unplanned maintenance work had to begin immediately on Monday night.

"Due to stringent safety requirements, the shutting down procedure, repairs and restarting procedure will take about three weeks to complete," Eskom said.

It would do all it could to mitigate the increased vulnerability of the power system during the shutdown, Eskom said. Measures would include increasing the use of the two-open cycle gas turbine power stations.

"Eskom is appealing to all South Africans to conserve electricity during this period. A concerted effort to decrease consumption will reduce the risk of load shedding."

In a statement, the power utility said the nuclear reactor side of the unit had not been affected and "will be kept in a safe and stable condition in line with the operating procedures of the station".
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I got this in an email this morning.
 
More of the same old bullsh1t....

They can't run a country, they can't run a power station, they can't even run anything properly.
 
Turiko said:
More of the same old bullsh1t....

They can't run a country, they can't run a power station, they can't even run anything properly.
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The Sunday Times has an article on how the ANC are being deserted by their voters (was online still yesterday).

Worth reading - and the only good news to come out of this ****hole in a long long time.
 
Moederloos said:
The Sunday Times has an article on how the ANC are being deserted by their voters (was online still yesterday).

Worth reading - and the only good news to come out of this ****hole in a long long time.
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Going seriously off topic:
This means nothing- they'll simply resort to Bob Mugabe's tried-and-tested methods to ensure their voters vote for them. Next year we will likely see the first instance of large-scale election rigging in SA.
 
Another outage at Koeberg as generator is down

Just heard this on e-news and will post linky when I find it.
Another generator at Koeberg is down and they don't yet know why - so expect outages ppl.
 
....maid might have used the mains to vacuum ;)
 
dear lord .... please let there be another power outage, so i may choose the color of my golf GTI .... amen

:D

<< this is not meant to offend any one .. it is just a joke >>
 
Moederloos said:
Worth reading - and the only good news to come out of this ****hole in a long long time.
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Not necessarily, one might argue that the only reason we haven't seen the ANC flex too many despotic muscles so far is that they haven't had the need to. If their support base crumbles they might decide they need to to hold onto power by other means.
 
'Technical fault' shuts down Koeberg unit
July 22 2008 at 08:09AM

Everyone who managed to get to the carpark, was thankfull that Fanie, got a skrik and hit the big red button, before everything blew. The smoke was coming out from where the sparks normally came from, not from the room with the water and the glow.

We did not wanted to work, but people will notice if their lights are off, so we started to fix the fault, but this was not planned, so dont expect anything.

Because nuclear information is dangerous, in the wrong hands, we hand locked up the manuals on how to work the machines. And the person who has the key is on 3 weeks leave, so we have to wait till him comes back.

We think that Fanie, our hero, believes that he knows how to work the other machine, the two-open gas turbine, and while we have doubts, this will show people that we are trying to help with the power failures that will happen.

We ask all South Africans to turn off their ligfhts or else they will be left in the dark.

The shiny guys in the glowing room, did not notice that anything was wrong, and where upset that they had to continue being at work, while the rest of the people had a party in the car park.
 
Yeah can you believe it, more low shedding during the coldest time of the year, what I don't understand is why they can do low shedding during the night when people are sleeping!!!!!!
 
kim because from what i know they cannot store the energy, so when ppl are sleeping no much is being used

what i dont get is we get loaded towards the end of summer

winter comes along with millions using heaters and we dont get shedded

was a money making scam, go watch the enron movie, they did this exact thing to generate billions in revenue :)

obviously this is a much smaller scale
 
Bradbowlllama said:
Just heard this on e-news and will post linky when I find it.
Another generator at Koeberg is down and they don't yet know why - so expect outages ppl.
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They do know why. The engineers detected signs of a developing problem with the generator cooling (nothing to do with the reactor) on Sunday. They decided to shut the generator down - the reactor is still running.

Unfortunately it's a pretty massive generator (900MW), so it takes around five days just for it to cool. Then they still have to take it apart to fix the problem with the cooling system...
 
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