Huge swarm of jellyfish shut down nuclear reactors at power plant after clogging pumps

Gravelines power station left with only one of its six nuclear reactors operating at full capacity after jellyfish clogged pumps

Jellyfish Swarm Overwhelms Nuclear Power Plant For The Second Time In 2 Years  HuffPost

The offline power comes as the country is forecast to see temperatures near 104F in the coming days.

The massive Gravelines nuclear power plant just 30 miles from Britain has been forced to close down in order to avoid disaster after a swarm of jellyfish got sucked into the cooling system on Monday

The jellyfish invasion is the latest in a series of climate change-driven incidents that have affected a record number of French nuclear reactors over the summer.

The nuclear power station on the North Sea coast has had jellyfish flooding into its filtration system. It is not the first time Graveline has faced this problem.

A nuclear plant in northern France shut down three reactors after a swarm of jellyfish clogged pumps used to cool the units, energy group EDF said on Tuesday. Three reactors were taken offline on Monday and output at a fourth was cut by half, EDF said in a statement, leaving just one operating at full capacity. A sixth

11 August 2026 Romania’s Cernavodă Nuclear Power Plant has initiated the technical procedures preceding the controlled shutdown of its second nuclear reactor, the so-called Unit 2, due to the very low flow of the Danube. The river water was essential for the cooling of the pumps used by the plant. The shutdown of Unit

A nuclear plant in northern France shut down three reactors after a swarm of jellyfish clogged pumps used to cool the units, energy group EDF said on Tuesday.

A nuclear plant in northern France shut down three reactors after a swarm of jellyfish clogged pumps used to cool the units, energy group EDF said on Tuesday.

Three reactors were taken offline on Monday, the EDF energy group said in a statement.

Three reactors were taken offline on Monday, the EDF energy group said in a statement.

Jellyfish-hit French nuclear plant shuts down three reactors  reuters.com