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Didcot powerstation

Kelly Marie Angel
I saw on the news earlier that this morning they blew up the last of Didcots cooling towers  the demolition went ok but the dust cloud caused a flashover in the substation that is still used to supply parts or maybe a

all of Oxfordshire  I bet the grid engineers were tearing there hair out after last weeks events
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    It may well have been dust but I had an interesting job a number of years ago.

    The context was Hunterston A Power Station where the station had been nearly all demolished and the Local Electricity Board wanted to take over the 11kV cabling that had originally supplied the construction works and then had supplied some of the standby to the standby plant. The problem was that the 11kV cabling meandered all over the place and had joints and more joints like they were going out of fashion.

    I'm just wondering if there was a live cable under the cooling towers that no one knew about.
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    It may well have been dust but I had an interesting job a number of years ago.

    The context was Hunterston A Power Station where the station had been nearly all demolished and the Local Electricity Board wanted to take over the 11kV cabling that had originally supplied the construction works and then had supplied some of the standby to the standby plant. The problem was that the 11kV cabling meandered all over the place and had joints and more joints like they were going out of fashion.

    I'm just wondering if there was a live cable under the cooling towers that no one knew about.
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