South Korean reactor stops working for no apparent reason

Sabotage?

"someone" turned out the lights when they left last night ?

Maybe, quite possibly a faulty safety shutdown related item too.

tick tock

Maybe a blown fuse....

or the core is not aligned with the Hiesenberg dampeners...

these gookies, shouldn't be allowed to run reactors, they melt them down all the times.

They ran out of Kim chi and dogs ??? Whose gonna cool it now

Found this, not much but more than the original article:

YEONGGWANG, South Korea, June 3 (Yonhap) -- A nuclear reactor along the west coast came to a sudden halt Wednesday, apparently due to a glitch in the power supply equipment, the state-run Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. said.
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A problem in the power transmission line may have disrupted the electricity supply to the reactor, leading to the suspension, he said, adding whether and when to restart the nuclear reactor will be decided after an examination of the cause and repair plan is completed.

[link to www.globalpost.com]

Lol...a classic

Lucy...you got some splainin to do

You're welcome, it got my curiosity up too. Apparently the Nuke power industry in SK has been problematic from the beginning, this from 2013- [link to www.nytimes.com]

"South Korea’s nuclear power industry has been plagued by a series of forced shutdowns, corruption scandals and mechanical failures in recent years, undermining public confidence in atomic energy even as the country’s dependence on it for electricity is expected to grow.

An anonymous whistle-blower led government investigators to uncover the latest problem, in which control cables that had failed to pass a safety test were given fake certificates and supplied to four reactors, the country’s Nuclear Safety and Security Commission said Tuesday. The control cable is used to send electronic signals to a reactor’s control system in the event of an accident.

The commission halted operations at two reactors on Tuesday so the problematic cables could be replaced. The planned start-up of two other reactors — one under a routine maintenance shutdown and the other a newly built reactor waiting for operational approval — will be delayed for the same reason."

Last Edited by Shiva ascendant on 06/04/2015 01:02 PM