HP steam scares the heck out of me.
Spent 5 weeks repairing a 3800 psig main steam (HP turbine valve outlet) pipe that burst through underneath the turbine floor at Eddystone 1 over a Christmas and News Years “holiday” period: the burst pipe had swung sideways, destroyed itself and badly bent a 18 inch deep main building beam next to the turbine.
Almost 4 thick pipe walls blown completely through. We couldn't even X-rays completely through clearly and to take two shots to get coverage of the inside of the welds.
Anyone have any idea when they will know the exact number of deaths?
This is so very sad.
I know Eddystone 1 from it being the first MgO2 scrubber and I did some training near there once. You work up that way often?
Santostefano said the explosion was related in some fashion to natural gas, but that the cause was still under investigation. He said the explosion appears to have occurred when operators attempted a "blow down" of natural gas pipelines, a procedure that involves the purging of gas from the pipelines.
http://www.courant.com/community/middletown/hc-middletown-ct-power-plant-explosion,0,3952195.story
I’m just wondering who you might work for doing HP steam piping repairs? I work in a supercritical plant; just wondering if our paths may have ever crossed?