- More than 600 South Korean government services remain disrupted after the breakdown
- The 22 -hour fire started in a single battery, distributed at 200 to 400 batteries
- The critical researcher Storage techniques of the installation batteries
A fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) in Daejeon, South Korea, affected all its servers, suspending 647 online government systems across the country.
The fire, which started in a lithium-ion battery, spread to around 234 batteries, although according to the source, an increase estimated at 400. This caused temperatures inside the installation to reach 160 ° C.
About only 30 online systems have been restored, leaving more than 600 affected by the fire induced by fire.
South Korean systems due to battery fire
According to The investorIt took the best part of a full day (22 hours) to put the fire fully, the batteries submerged in the water proving the most effective method.
This occurs after the installation has already started to move batteries as part of its fire precautions.
Yuseong’s fire station head, Kim Ki-Seon, said the fire started during a procedure to extinguish the power in the context of this resettlement effort.
The report quotes an unnamed principal researcher as a “large battery company”, noting that large -scale energy storage systems (ESS) have integrated safety characteristics such as the abolition of fires to fight overheating and explosions. The power supply without interruption of NIRS (UPS) used a much simpler rack system which leaves them more exposed.
The fire in South Korea also raises concerns about the dependence on a single data center, which, in this case, lowered nearly 650 government systems, including the emergency rescue tracking function.
“We apologize for having caused major drawbacks to the public by delaying civil requests and the issuance of certificates,” said Interior Minister Yun Ho-Jung.
The authorities have not yet confirmed the precise cause of the fire.
