Jellyfish Invasion Keeps UK Nuclear Power Plant Shut Down
by Jaymi Heimbuch, San Francisco, California 
on 07. 1.11
Photo by Jaymi Heimbuch
Doing an even better job than activist environmentalists might have done, a bloom of jellies has caused a UK nuclear plant to stay offline, since the jellies would clog up the intake of water for cooling.
Reutersreports that the invasion is affecting EDF Energy’s Torness nuclear power plant in Scottish, which kept reactors offline on Wednesday to avoid the jellies gumming up the works.Interestingly, the report also says that this could be an event that will become more common as oceans that are growing more acidic as the water absorbs more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The changing pH balance of the water is actually just fine for jellies. And it helps that the water around the east coast of Scotland is actually one degree Celsius above average for this time of year.
