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Background

- SSHPP is located in Siberia, Russia

-Largest power plant in Russia

-Located on Yenisei River

-Dam is 245m high

-One if the highest dams in the world

-Construction began in USSR in 1963, completed in Russia in 2000

Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydro Power Plant

Disaster.

August 2009

The Event

- Accident occurred on On August 17, 2009 at 08:15

- Hydraulic unit was torn off, water gushed into engine room

- destroyed on an area of about 1200 square meters

- complete shutdown of the hydroelectric power plant

- The territory adjacent to the power plant was also under water

- more than 40 tons of engine oil spilled into the water area of the Yenisei River.

- At 09:20 the flow of water into the turbine hall was stopped

Recovery

- 115 people and 21 pieces of equipment were involved in initial recovery

- At 11:40 the gates of the spillway dam were opened and the balance of flow through the hydroelectric complex was restored

- localization of an oil slick on the Yenisei

- 20 rescuers, as well as special equipment and a task force of four people came to help

- Debris has been sorted out, and the power supply scheme is being restored.

- Less than a day after the accident, mass sea trout began to die

- Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation arrived with rescuers and the heads of the Russian Emergencies Ministry

- On August 24, less than a meter of water remained to be pumped out of the turbine hall of the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP

- On September 23, 2009, the body of the last, 75th, deceased was found at the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP.

Disaster History

-technological disaster

-no precedent in Russian history

-Rushing construction process

-not following design drawings

-corruption

-lack of supervision from local authorities

-complex economic-political situation

Lessons Learned

-40 billion rubles spent on recovery

-19 people were charged

-all power plants were inspected

-equipment was updated

-rules and regulation were strictened

Created by David Tazhibov

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