Swarming Jellyfish Just Shut Down a Nuclear Reactor For The Second Time
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The Gravelines nuclear power plant near Dunkirk on the French coast is the largest nuclear power plant in Western Europe, with six reactors each rated at 900 megawatts. However, operator EDF is facing a problem. Last August, four reactors were shut down after a swarm of jellyfish blocked cooling pumps. Following this incident, the operator spent hundreds of thousands of euros to prevent a recurrence. It didn't help much. Exactly 12 months after …
Jellyfish shut down three reactors at a nuclear power plant in northern France on Monday evening. Interestingly, this is the second such "attack", with the first occurring on the same day last year, reports ScienceAlert.
Swarming jellyfish overrun French nuclear plant on same date two years in a row
The jellyfish invasion is the latest in a series of climate change-driven incidents that have affected a record number of French nuclear reactors over the summer. August 11, 2026 By Nicolas Camut, https://www.politico.eu/article/swarming-jellyfish-overrun-french-nuclear-plant-on-same-date-two-years-in-a-row/ Aug. 11 is quickly becoming jellyfish invasion day at the Gravelines nuclear power plant in northern France. Despite spending hundreds of t…
The Gravelines nuclear power plant supplies about 5 million households under normal conditions, but it had to be shut down for the second time in a year due to the same fault. The post The same French nuclear power plant had to be shut down for the second time in a year due to jellyfish invasion first appeared on 24.hu.
Tens of tons of jellyfish reached a nuclear plant in France and blocked their pumping systems; the phenomenon occurred for the second consecutive year.
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