Jellyfish disrupt cooling at nuclear power plants
Jellyfish caused three reactors at France's Gravelines plant to go offline and reduced a fourth to half power, while a similar bloom shut Scotland's Torness plant for a week in 2011.
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Marine blooms can abruptly reduce nuclear generation and expose vulnerability in critical cooling infrastructure.
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- Jellyfish took three of the six reactors at France's Gravelines nuclear plant offline this summer and cut a fourth to half power, as they shut Scotland's Torness for a week in 2011, because a plant that swallows a canal of seawater to stay cool has no defense against a bloom except to stop ↗scienceblog.com · Recorded source date: Aug 31, 2026, 9:46 AM UTC
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