{"id":335635,"date":"2025-08-11T11:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T11:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/335635\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T11:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T11:51:10","slug":"swarm-of-jellyfish-shuts-nuclear-power-plant-in-france-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/335635\/","title":{"rendered":"Swarm of jellyfish shuts nuclear power plant in France | France"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Gravelines nuclear power plant in northern France<\/a> has been shut down after a swarm of jellyfish entered the filter drums that pull in cooling water, according to its state-owned operator, EDF.<\/p>\n

The plant in northern France is one of the largest in the country and cooled from a canal connected to the North Sea.<\/p>\n

Four reactors were affected by the incident, which occurred late on Sunday and led to the entire plant being shut down. Reactors 2, 3 and 4 stopped automatically when the filter drums of the pumping stations became packed with a \u201cmassive and unpredictable\u201d swarm of jellyfish, and reactor 6 went offline shortly after, EDF said.<\/p>\n

The entire nuclear plant, located on the French coast between Calais and Dunkirk<\/a>, has temporarily halted production as the other two units are offline for planned maintenance, EDF data showed.<\/p>\n

Several species of jellyfish are native to the North Sea and are often seen around the shoreline in the summer when the waters are warm.<\/p>\n

The event did not affect the safety of the facilities, staff or the environment, EDF said.<\/p>\n

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The plant\u2019s six units produce 900 megawatts of power each, or 5.4 gigawatts in total.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Gravelines nuclear power plant in northern France has been shut down after a swarm of jellyfish entered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-335635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115009990478251857","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}