Jerry 🦙💝🦙@ravenking89 I feel lucky to have visited it and crawled through it in person. It is an amazing thing
I hadn’t heard about the transformer. I suspect you’re right - has to be aging pretty significantly.
Doc Edward Morbius ⭕@jerry @ravenking89 Hoover transformer explosion (July 19, 2022):
Hoover Dam Transformer Explodes, Bursts Into Flames
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@jerry Filed under "jobs I'm happy not to have": standing in water whilst hosing down the transformers that have just exploded outside Hoover Dam's massive power-generation plant.
Electric circuits and water ...
@ravenking89 @dredmorbius that was my first thought as well
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK@jerry @ravenking89 @dredmorbius
the electricity distribution company will have opened all the breakers (if they didn't automatically open) and checked the circuits are dead before the Fire Brigade attend, they work together to deal with incidents like this..
@vfrmedia That's still an awfully strong trust in a bunch of things going right whilst in the midst of that kind of precisely not happening.
Though yes, special teams and disaster planning + live exercises.
@vfrmedia As the saying goes, the front's not supposed to fall off.
Nuclear power plants aren't supposed to go over-power, melt down, blow the top off their core structure (containment building, what's that?), burn both the zirc cladding and graphite moderator (which swelled due to power surge preventing scramming) spewing radioactive smoke across three continents, and then found itself in the middle of a war zone with looting-inclined invading sources.
I don't know the details for USA, but here in UK staff of the Electricity Distribution Network Operators even have security clearance to use encrypted Airwave radios to communicate directly with the uniformed 999 services - its rare for anyone from a private company to get this level of access...
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0026/79802/List-of-Sharer-Organisations.pdf