Thursday, June 30, 2011

Jellyfish halt Torness nuclear units (Reuters)

LONDON (Reuters) ? Masses of jellyfish entering the Torness nuclear power plant's cooling water inflow area led EDF Energy to shut both units there manually on Tuesday, the company said.

"This is temporary and the reactors will be restarted once the jellyfish situation subsides," a spokeswoman for EDF Energy said.

The two 640-megawatt (MW) units in Scotland went off line on Tuesday afternoon, National Grid data showed.

The presence of jellyfish, seaweed and other marine life is not uncommon at nuclear power plants, EDF Energy said.

Two weeks ago, an Atlantic Grey Seal was rescued from EDF Energy's Hinkley Point nuclear power station in Somerset after it got trapped in the inflow area chasing fish. The plant's operations were not affected.

(Reporting by Karolin Schaps, editing by Anthony Barker)

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110628/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_britain_nuclear_torness

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