In Sweden, a nuclear power plant that accounted for almost ten percent of the country's electricity, shut down for a very strange reason... Jellyfish! This was caused by a large number of jellyfish inhabiting a cooling water intake to the plant. The plant was shut down manually so that no damage would affect the plant. They did not want it to over heat due to low water intake. They did eventually get the power plant up and running again, but nothing like this has ever happened at this plant that opened in 1985. I think that they should make sure that no fish or any sea creatures can come close to the plant because it may cause serious problems. How do you think they should solve this problem?
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Well done!
This is a pretty interesting story. I think they should maybe get a net or a wall in the water around the plant so no fish can get close to it.
I agree with the netting.
Maybe they should have thought about the sea life there before making it there, years ago. Well, I guess now they know better.
I hope not too many people suffered from the power outage!
I agree, they could have built the plant in a different place so this wouldn't be a problem.
They should have nets or another thing to stop fish at the intake just in case a fish could mess things up.
I am actually surprised that they do not have something to catch the fish before they get into the system, and I think they need to do something better
I think that is a good point. Like a lot of other people have said, a net would be a good thing to have to make sure it can't happen.
They could make a barrier like a net that the fish could just not go through to make sure nothing gets by it.
Idk what I would do if this happened. I don't see how jelly fish can shut down something that make 10% of electricity of Europe.
oops, maybe they could put up some sort of netting to stop this from happening. But i still think that this is hilarious.
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