Jellyfish at the Gravelines Nuclear Power Plant: Another Reactor Shut Down
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Gravelines nuclear power plant faces new massive arrival of jellyfish, forcing EDF to reduce its electricity production A "new massive arrival of jellyfish" forced EDF
On Thursday EDF announced that it had shut down a reactor and adapted another one's power at the Gravelines nuclear power plant. In question: "a new massive arrival of jellyfish", which already hit the "sea water pumping station filtration systems" in early August. Only two of the six Gravelines reactors are functioning normally. - "New massive arrival of jellyfish": a reactor at the Gravelines nuclear power plant again at the stop (Environment).
On Wednesday around 4:00 PM, the teams at Gravelines "proceeded, as a precautionary measure, to shut down production unit No. 3 due to a new massive influx of jellyfish into the filtration systems of the seawater pumping station," EDF stated on its website. This reactor had been reconnected to the grid on August 18, just over a week after it had already been shut down due to an initial jellyfish infestation. Only two reactors (Nos. 1 and 6) out …
The EU's largest nuclear power plant in Gravelines, France, has once again fallen victim to a heat-related jellyfish outbreak.
A "new massive arrival of jellyfish" forced EDF to shut down a reactor and adapt the power of another of the Gravelines nuclear power plant, already affected by this phenomenon at the beginning of August, said the group this Thursday. Bis repetita. On Thursday, EDF announced that it was forced to stop one of the six reactors of the Gravelines nuclear power plant, located on the Channel in the North, because of a "new massive arrival of jellyfish…
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