ApocaDocs: Wave of jellyfish shuts down Swedish nuke reactor

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Posted Wed Oct 2 2013: from San Francisco Chronicle:


	Wave of jellyfish shuts down Swedish nuke reactor http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1380744892 It wasn't a tsunami but it had the same effect: A huge cluster of jellyfish forced one of the world's largest nuclear reactors to shut down -- a phenomenon that marine biologists say could become more common. Operators of the Oskarshamn nuclear plant in southeastern Sweden had to scramble reactor number three on Sunday after tons of jellyfish clogged the pipes that bring in cool water to the plant's turbines. By Tuesday, the pipes had been cleaned of the jellyfish and engineers were preparing to restart the reactor, which at 1,400 megawatts of output is the largest boiling-water reactor in the world, said Anders Osterberg, a spokesman for OKG, the plant operator.

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'Doc Michael says:

If only they could clog coal fired plant smokestacks.