[ExI] Awesome disaster

Stathis Papaioannou stathisp at gmail.com
Mon Nov 4 11:55:52 UTC 2013


On Monday, 4 November 2013, spike wrote:

> >... On Behalf Of Keith Henson
> Subject: [ExI] Awesome disaster
>
> >...I only recently became aware of this, some you might have known about
> it
> for years.
>
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Sayano%E2%80%93Shushenskaya_power_station
> _accident#!
>
> They didn't talk about it much at the time.  I have some power plant
> buddies
> from college who sent around text accounts and a few photos.  The Russians
> didn't even let out any news of it for several weeks after the fact.
> Commies are that way you know, secretive, even when we don't hold any
> really
> serious hard feelings over the whole cold war thing.
>

Are they still commies?



> >...Wow.  A 900 ton spinning generator rotor flying out of the floor.
>
> Keith
> _______________________________________________
>
>
> Oooh boy, that musta really been something to see.  From a very safe
> distance of course.  They didn't want to admit that most of the eighty
> 11.5cm bolts holding the rotor cover were fatigue cracked from vibration.
> The rotor's design life was 30 yrs.  At the time of the accident it was 29
> yrs 10 months.
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Sayano%E2%80%93Shushenskaya_power_station_
> accident
>
>
> spike
>
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