Jellyfish-hit French nuclear plant shuts down three reactors

reuters.com

19 pointsgeox4 comments

Yep, the almighty nuclear plants that everybody says that can't fail, can be closed by life beings. Is known since many years.

I assume that is Craspedacusta (I may be wrong). Better than zebra mussels in any case.

Sounds like we got an expert on functional safety in our midst.

> Reactor 1 runs at 50% output as a preventative measure, EDF says

> Reactor 5 was already offline for maintenance and reactor 6 remains fully operational, EDF says

> EDF expects quick restart after cleanup as no new jellyfish are arriving, an engineer says

This seems like a graceful degradation, not an outright failure or closure.

> no new jellyfish are arriving

The problem will fix itself in winter, but new blooms will happen sporadically while temperatures remain high.