Re:
Damaged Turbo-Generator At Koodankulam Nuclear
Power Plant,
Overhauled Before Grid Connection?
By VT Padmanabhan, R Ramesh, V Pugazhendi & Joseph Makkolil
http://www.countercurrents.org/vtp221114.htm
Two years before its grid connection, the Russian-made turbine was overhauled by a private contractor and this fact was kept as a guarded secret. In spite of the overhaul, KKNPP turbine failed within hours of grid connection and was responsible for five trips, which kept the reactor off-grid for 59 days. It could not be revived even after a two-month long maintenance during August- September 2014. Usually the first overhaul of a new turbine is done after completion of 5 to 10 years of work. The extreme damage of the turbine could have been due to the mal-functioning of vibration monitoring instrument made by a Russian company charged for selling counterfeit parts. Failure of instrumentation in other systems have the potential for catastrophic accidents
Overhauled Before Grid Connection?
By VT Padmanabhan, R Ramesh, V Pugazhendi & Joseph Makkolil
http://www.countercurrents.org/vtp221114.htm
Two years before its grid connection, the Russian-made turbine was overhauled by a private contractor and this fact was kept as a guarded secret. In spite of the overhaul, KKNPP turbine failed within hours of grid connection and was responsible for five trips, which kept the reactor off-grid for 59 days. It could not be revived even after a two-month long maintenance during August- September 2014. Usually the first overhaul of a new turbine is done after completion of 5 to 10 years of work. The extreme damage of the turbine could have been due to the mal-functioning of vibration monitoring instrument made by a Russian company charged for selling counterfeit parts. Failure of instrumentation in other systems have the potential for catastrophic accidents
My comment:
Let us put it bluntly: Make an honest attempt to avoid
useless actions like terrestrial nuke programs. A 1000 MWe nuke after 10000
reactor years of operations will have delivered at 600 MWeyear/year 6 million
MWeyears of electricity. Successive 100 year storages of nuclear wastes will
require for their construction and maintenance for a million years of storage at 6 MWyt/year all the energy that
was delivered by this nuke! But as is happening at Fukushima Iodine 129 having
a half life of 15.7 million years is being spilled into the Pacific ocean and
the groundwaters. This iodine really requires a 100 million years of isolation
from the biosphere! There is absolutely no energy to be available for use! Stop
this menace now. Arjuna, are you not man enough to fight? You foolish rulers!
Life is not due to your generosity; we are also not the timid ones. We will
fight till the last drop of our blood to steer away from this mess created by
modern civilization in a manner which prohibits violence. Be satisfied with
that extraterrestrial wonder called the sun to drive a normal civilization
through living beings including the forests and nature at its purest. Make
return the bottom line of civilization. Asap establish a normal way of life.
1 comment:
Till 28 March 2020 there were no comments on this piece! The wild man is heartless. So modern civilization went on progressively deteriorating the gene pool of all life until at last a coronavirus,COVID 19 took over and forced the wild people to shut modern civilization on the hope of breaking the chain of transmission of the virus among humans.
See https://livingnormally.blogspot.com/2020/03/coronavirus-and-life-in-2020-macro.html
If lockdown is only necessary but not sufficient, extinction is highly probable, applying the precautionary principle. Thus change over from the evil called modern civilization to a normal way of life where nature is the bottom line. It is the gross nature product that is infinitely superior to gross domestic product.
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