William Wixon wrote:
"John R. Carroll" wrote in message
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Joseph Gwinn wrote:
In article ,
Ignoramus17616 wrote:

Joe, it looks like they were repairing some of the water channels
inside the dam, which broke a wall and flooded the control room.

That doesn't explain all the physical damage to what had been a very
strongly built building. Was the water channel broken when the
turbine went, or the other way around?

A water hammer on #2 resulted in the destruction of the rotor which
fractured the housing and threw a 900 ton piece of equipment
completely off
it's mount. Water continued to flood the hall through the fractured
turbine
housing and since all power was lost, the safety systems couldn't
open the safety gates. All of the afected transformers apparently
blew as well and their oil flowed from the building when emergency
power came on and the emergency discharge gates were opened manually.

That's what I got anyway.

JC

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John R. Carroll




some more photos (i hadn't seen these yet).

wow.

My reaction exactly.


http://dfilter.livejournal.com/592091.html


damn shame. terrible tragedy.

Just look at the hole to the left side of the fourth picture.
What blew out of it weighed 900 tons and there isn't hide nor hare of it in
site.


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John R. Carroll