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technicians with the U . S . Army Corps

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of Engineers completed installation of

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a primary switching center

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At the Kajaki Dams Hydroelectric Plant ,

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July 11 . The plant provides power to a

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number of key areas in southern

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Afghanistan , including Lashkar , Gah

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Kandahar , Sangin and musa Qala . The

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switch equipment works like a circuit

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breaker , but on a much larger scale .

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Uh what we did was we built a

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switchgear and it's called a substation .

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It's got a protection system built into

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it to stop any kind of false or

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anything that happens bad outside on

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the power grid from coming back and

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actually damaging the turbines behind

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us so that you prolong the life of

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these so that we don't have to replace

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these or they don't have to because

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it's just very very costly to replace

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somewhere to repair them the longer

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that you can extend the life better .

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So that's what this does out here is it

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protects it from that stuff coming in .

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It stops it there instead of hitting it

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when this plane is running at full

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capacity before the installation of the

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switch center . These areas would

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frequently experience electrical

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outages which would last for hours at a

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time . With the new substation . Turn

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the power back on . Only takes 10 to 15

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minutes reporting from Camp Leatherneck ,

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Helmand province Afghanistan . I'm

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lance corporal Brian Nygaard . Yeah .

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Mhm . And affordable