The Station: Repairworks

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Remember, that station that got accident on it a few weeks ago? We had it here.

They still can’t understand what has happened. “It’s not watter-hammer effect, as we thought before”, say officials, “but still it is unclear what has happened.”






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Such pieces of concrete were found far away from the explosion spot.

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Repair workers drink water, lots of water.

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This water was normally not flowing through the station when it was functioning in its 100% mode.

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Now each this flow shows how much money they are losing each day letting the water come thru freely not doing any useful job of

generating electricity.

Photo credits: drugoi

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    29 Responses to “The Station: Repairworks”

    1. thumper says:

      thank god it’s just hydro and didn’t involve a nuclear plant =(

    2. IronFist says:

      Typical Soviet construction quality. Build big things and then forget about the maintenance.

    3. CB says:

      Someone lost a spanner in the alternator.

    4. Mizz... (A) says:

      I don´t knew if this is the real truth, but this is what i vé heard about it so far:
      Citat:

      “”According to the former director of Irkutskenergo, Viktor Bobrovski, the accident could have been caused by an incorrect start-up process of the turbine which resulted in an hydraulic pressure surge, or the excess load of the turbine caused by the peak consumption of electricity. According to Bobrovski, it is common practice in the region to compensate for peak load by overloading hydroelectric power plants, and the energy system of the region is near collapse, as the main goal of its owners is to take out as much profit as possible cutting down on maintenance, investment, safety, and educational costs. Since the load for other turbines ceased after the collapse of the turbine № 2, they probably started to spin without load at increasing speed until they smashed. He said that former director of Sayano–Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station Valentin Bryzgalov had alerted that it is dangerous to operate the plant at its maximum loads when the turbines are starting to vibrate in the axial direction. He said that the accident probably would not have had such catastrophic results if the safety systems had worked and the safety rules had been followed. According to Rostekhnadzor, the automatic shutdown system of the water intake pipes’ gates failed after failure of the turbine № 2.”

      • Gerry says:

        It’s almost what we had discussed in previous post about load cut-off and safety systems malfunction. I now see that damage is even worse, will be needed years for reconstruction and looks to me that whole plant must be shut down till then. And who will pay for it, the russian state that has no money to repair schools, private investors who don’t give a cent unless they can have serious turnover in just a year or insurance companies (i doubt if this plant was insured for such big damage).
        And the big question, where Russia will find enough and cheap electricity, this plant was damned big, could power a small country by itself. Winter is coming and lot of people will need light and heating…

    5. parasite says:

      don’t drink and produce electricity

    6. Haha [reply #6], his name is ‘parasite,’ but he’s right: “don’t drink & produce electricity”.

      But those machines are crazy to look at in the photos - it’s nuts how they thought up the engineering to make it that humongous & then seeing it all fucked up in the pics.

    7. Para bellum says:

      Опять заокеанские мегаэксперты получившие знаменитое амриканское образование судят о том в чем нихера не понимают. Современной России после рыночных реформ очень далеко до советского уровня проектирования и строительства. Тот факт что рушится построенное тогда говорит о падении качества образования и уровня ответствености.

    8. No problem, the damage is minor. It should buff right out.

    9. Oraga says:

      OK,I admit it was me,I flush the toilet ,twice.

    10. Okay, without sarcasm…
      Clearly, it is the work of the United States CIA. Russia should look closely at workers that had access.

    11. Akton says:

      It was not an terrorist attack, only lack of maintance.
      Private owners milk companies for money. Even heard about a nuclear plant where the workers haven’t been paid for 4 months.

      Works like an carousel:A well run safety oriented taken over by an profit interested.When its been drained dry the profit hungry leaves because nothing is left,the its taken over by a safety oriented..etc.

      Lots of companies are run this way in the Former SU,till they literally fall apart.

      Phew what an long text :)

    12. Ya, don’t strain yourself, comrade akton.
      You almost wounded us with your furious typing!

      You know, as well as I that globalist pigs obviously have interest in this damn dam, and the embarrassment, and the resulting enterprise.

      I’m sure Putin and company are aware!

      <Samarkand 556

    13. I Like a You says:

      Next time I will not be flush toilet so hard! I will make #2 else wheres.

    14. RB says:

      It`s still a sad thing that has happened, I hope they can get it up and running as soon as possible. It sure would be nice if maybe the Germans stepped up and donated some equipment and or maybe some cash. It could get worse if they step up the pressure on the reactors to run even closer to the red line
      Imagine another meltdown compared with this. makes it look like small potatoes. I hope they keep posting about this situation.Its a good thing to keep the higher up`s thinking about this.

    15. jcp says:

      This is very sad. It is such a waste that so much damage can not be blamed on Georgians or Ukrainians. Putin must be sleeping if he can not turn this into excuse to invade another country.

    16. Cergey says:

      may you want foto my ЖОПА or penis?
      please

    17. UnderM says:

      You all wrong, who thinking CIA and Al-Quaieeda. Really it’s work Georgian terrorists, and Russia will for punishing bomb their citys and kill so many innocent peoples as possible.

    18. Hm, I wonder why so many people seem to think that’s the point?

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