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    Jellyfish invasions shut down three nuclear power plants

    By Jeff Hughes | Digital Trends – Thu, Jul 7, 2011

    Seems like jellyfish are the latest critics against nuclear power use. Earlier this week a nuclear power plant on the coast of Israel was forced to shut down due to a jellyfish clog in their cooling system. Two weeks before this incident, two seperate countries had coastal reactors which were clogged similarly. These events are sparking speculation on whether this is a growing trend driven by climate change.

    The string of jellyfish surges began with a reactor in Shimane, Japan and in a week’s time two nuclear reactors on the Scottish coast were also crippled by jellyfish in the cooling system. The Scottish Torness nuclear power plants, as well as the Japan and Israel plants pull cold sea water to creating cooling pools for the reactors within. The plants logically have filters (called flumes) to keep marine life out since they rest on the coast, but a possibly global jellyfish bloom is proving too much for these filters to handle.

    Monty Graham, a jellyfish biologist from the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, told Life’s Little Mysteries, “Jellyfish populations spike and wane with climate variability, so it’s not hard to make the logical leap that if climate is changing long-term, we’ll likely see a population change.”

    Graham pointed out dozens of cases where jellyfish blooms caused problems for coastal power plants over the past few decades. A researcher at the Monterrey Bay Aquarium Research Institute also pointed out that that an Australian power plants was forced to shut down completely in 1937. Graham cautions that since researchers have only been tracking jellyfish populations for a short period of the time, they don’t have the data to support whether this is a global trend and the recent incidents could be coincidental. He says that these incidents could even be attributed to the increase on coastal power plants.

    To combat the overwhelming numbers of jellyfish, plants are investing in countermeasures including more filters and a jet bubble system which floats jellyfish to the surface away from the cooling system.

     

    14 comments

    • david
      david  •  10 mths ago
      lol israel sucks they cant even keep a reactor running lol jellyfisy shut them down lol how dumb stupid zionists
    • Donald Braun
      Donald Braun  •  10 mths ago
      Its a technical problem, not a moral one. They've found a clever fix.
    • Sharon
      Sharon  •  10 mths ago
      Where is Spongebob, the worlds greatest jelly-fisher when you need him??
    • Yahoo
      Yahoo  •  10 mths ago
      When the word "Chernobyl" is translated from Russian to English it becomes "wormwood". Wormwood is the "star that falls to earth" in the bible's prophetic book of Revelation....the star falls to earth and poisons Earth's water. Nuclear reactors must be built near water for cooling purposes. That's why the first thing poisoned during meltdown is nearby river, sea and lake water.
    • Happycat
      Happycat  •  10 mths ago
      Isralies arn't smart enough to hve nuclear power in the first place. Let all of them get shut down.
      • J
        J 10 mths ago
        You show your ignorance well.
    • Yahoo
      Yahoo  •  10 mths ago
      I've read that the killing off/extinction of sea-turtles worldwide has caused jellyfish populations to skyrocket. Jellyfish are one of sea-turtles main prey food. Sea turtles often die after eating plastic bags, which they think are jellyfish. Sea birds also die in this manner by eating small bits of floating plastic. The plastic constipates the turtles and seabirds, eventually killing them.
    • Robert C
      Robert C  •  10 mths ago
      You people that spout all of this cause and effect caused by global warming or climate change as they want to call it now.. Quess what the climate from the begining of earth's history has been in flux. I bet if a ant skins it's knee you put that on the list too.
      • J
        J 10 mths ago
        The rub is, we now realize it and know that we are a greater part of it than ever before.
    • YOz
      YOz  •  10 mths ago
      this may work for the law... me and you both wanted the crime to be comitted
    • A Yahoo! User  •  10 mths ago
      On the coast in Ocean City, Md there are tentacleless jellyfish the size of small dinner plates. They are really creepy.
    • OUTSIDE IN
      OUTSIDE IN  •  10 mths ago
      Jellyfish are being controlled by Al Qaeda
    • happy
      happy  •  10 mths ago
      you will soon see the attack of the monster jellyfish created by the nuclear sites. in a short time they will be going around the world causing ships to sink and then rolling onto the mainlands of the continents. five hundred feet tall, weighing tons, slashing and eating the unsuspecting beachgoers.
    • Jewel
      Jewel  •  10 mths ago
      Aww those big nose jews should just play bootylicious and dance their troubles away like they do when they go out shooting palestineans
      • Vil
        Vil 10 mths ago
        :::laughs:::
      • Chrissy
        Chrissy 10 mths ago
        whoa girl! where did that come from! lol
    • david
      david  •  10 mths ago
      any one ever hear of AIPAC look it up on youtube pls
    • atlantaph25
      atlantaph25  •  10 mths ago
      My homemade ice-cream just melted on the front porch! Dangit global warming!
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