Jellyfish Shut Down Israeli Nuclear Power Plant
Posted by Big Gav in jellyfish, nuclear power
The Daily Mail (!) has a report on another nuclear power plant being shut down by an invasion of jellyfish - Attack of the jellyfish: Sea creatures shut down ANOTHER power station amid claims population surge is due to climate change.
Another power station was shut down by jellyfish today amid claims that climate change is causing a population surge among the species.
A huge swarm clogged up the Orot Rabin plant in Hadera, Israel, a day after the Torness nuclear facility in Scotland was closed in a similar incident.
Hadera ran into trouble when jellyfish blocked its seawater supply, which it uses for cooling purposes, forcing officials to use diggers to remove them. ...
The report, published in December 2010 by the UN Environment Programme, warns that the acidification of oceans makes it harder for coral reefs and shellfish to form skeletons – threatening larger creatures that depend on them for food.
The decline in creatures with shells could trigger an explosion in jellyfish populations.
The report, written by Dr Carol Turley of Plymouth University, said: ‘Ocean acidification has also been tentatively linked to increased jellyfish numbers and changes in fish abundance.’
Jellyfish are immune to the effects of acidification. As other species decline, jellyfish will move in to fill the ecological niche.
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