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Jellyfish-hit French nuclear plant shuts down three reactors
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pvaldes
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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.
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Sounds like we got an expert on functional safety in our midst.
dpedu
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> 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.