Vacuum cleaner set Swedish nuke plant on fire

[n2doc]

£170m blunder put reactor out of action for months
By Lewis Page

Posted in Environment, 14th November 2011 11:51 GMT

A nuclear powerplant in Sweden was put out of action for seven months at a cost of 1.8 billion kronor (£170m) after a vacuum cleaner was mistakenly left inside its containment vessel during tests, according to reports.

Swedish English-language journal The Local reports on the revelations which have followed the fire which broke out at the Ringhals powerplant south of Gothenburg in May, during pressure tests on the No 2 reactor's containment.

According to the paper:

Someone forgot to remove a wet vacuum cleaner from the premises, which then caught on fire.

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/14/swedish_nuke_plant_fire/print.html

[kristopher]

1. "out of action for seven months"? That's the intermittent nature of nuclear power for you...

Lovins points out that the reserve power for a distributed renewable grid amounts to only a couple of percent of grid capacity. For a centralized thermal system like coal and nuclear however, require about a 15% - 20% spinning reserve margin".

The statement starts at 9:15 on this video, but the entire discussion is worth viewing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1C9a-8Zz19E

From
http://cleantechnica.com/2011/11/12/amory-lovins-nails-renewable-energy-costs-energy-subsidies-myth-of-baseload/

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[w4rma]

3. Oh yeah, because a janitor can really afford that bill. Jeeze. (nt)

[wtmusic]

4. Nuke Hysteria Taints Account of Vacuum Cleaner Fire

More careful readers might note that the nuke plant was never set 'on fire', and that the plant was likely caused for precautionary reasons, demonstrating an exemplary conscientiousness about safety.

Unrec.

[madokie]

6. Did anyone even think that the vacuum cleaner set the plant on fire?

I know I didn't and I only skimmed over the article.

When you have incidences like the one in Japan last march I don't think that anyone could be accused of 'nuke hysteria.' I was reading the other day that the people who lived in close proximity to that catastrophe will never be able to go back home. I've also read many accounts that it wasn't the Tsunami that set things in motion it was the earthquake itself. Even if the water had never came the end result would have likely been pretty much the same. The 9 on the Richter scale was at the epicenter with the nuclear complex a good 90 miles away where the shaking would not have been anything like it would have been had the earthquake been right under the nuke complex. Nuclear energy is not safe, will never be safe, and should never have been used to generate our electricity to begin with. If not for the fuel for bombs we'd never have gone down that path in the first place. The people were sold a pig in a poke and no amount of lipstick will ever change that. You can stay in denial about the lack of safety concerning nuclear energy for as long as you live because nothing you say or do is going to change anything anyway so go for it. Its not a pox on me that you love everything nuclear, rather it shows your lack of critical thought on the subject. :hi:

[kristopher]

7. The plant was shut down for *seven months* for "precautionary reasons"??????

You are a hoot wtmusic; making claims that are so far out they are always good for a real belly laugh.

[Kolesar]

5. Sucks

eom

[kristopher]

8. This is one of two Swedish nuclear plants that have lately been shut down for fire.

The other was in Oskarshamn on the eastern side of Sweden. 2 out 10 shut down at the same time for fires, wonder how hard it was to find replacement power on such short notice?

http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2011/10/23/swedish_nuclear_reactor_closed_after_fire/

[kristopher]

9. This is one of two Swedish nuclear plants that have lately been shut down for fire.

The other was in Oskarshamn on the eastern side of Sweden. 2 out 10 shut down at the same time for fires, wonder how hard it was to find replacement power on such short notice?

http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2011/10/23/swedish_nuclear_reactor_closed_after_fire/