{"id":5855,"date":"2013-10-02T09:23:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T13:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=5855"},"modified":"2013-10-02T09:24:36","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T13:24:36","slug":"jellyfish-1-nuke-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/jellyfish-1-nuke-0.html","title":{"rendered":"Jellyfish 1 Nuke 0"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nOne of the world’s largest nuclear reactors was shut down Sunday by jellyfish.\r\nNot a tsunami, not an earthquake, not a blizzard, not even hot water: jellyfish.\r\nAnd it’s not the first time or the first reactor.\r\nTell me again how reliable centralized baseload power is?\r\n

\r\nAP reported yesterday,\r\n\r\nJellyfish force nuclear plant shutdown in Sweden:\r\nTonnes of jellyfish clog pipes that bring in cool water to the plant’s turbines<\/a>\r\n

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\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nOperators of the Oskarshamn nuclear plant in southeastern Sweden had\r\nto scramble reactor number three on Sunday after tonnes of jellyfish\r\nclogged the pipes that bring in cool water to the plant’s turbines.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nBy Tuesday, the pipes had been cleaned of the jellyfish and\r\nengineers were preparing to restart the reactor, which at 1,400\r\nmegawatts of output is the largest boiling-water reactor in the\r\nworld, said Anders Osterberg, a spokesman for OKG, the plant\r\noperator.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nAll three Oskharshamn reactors are boiling-water types, the same\r\ntechnology at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant that suffered a\r\ncatastrophic failure in 2011 after a tsunami breached the facility’s\r\nwalls and flooded its equipment.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nJellyfish are not a new problem for nuclear power plants. Last year\r\nthe California-based Diablo Canyon facility had to shut its reactor\r\ntwo after gobs of sea salp — a gelatinous, jellyfish-like\r\norganism — clogged intake pipes. In 2005, the first unit at\r\nOskarshamn was temporarily turned off due to a sudden jellyfish\r\ninflux.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nIt is heating water that’s causing the jellyfish to bloom more often, causing these\r\nshutdowns to happen more often.\r\n

\r\nI never heard of jellyfish shutting down rooftop solar power….\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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