{"id":397683,"date":"2025-09-04T16:24:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/397683\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T16:24:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:24:17","slug":"jellyfish-disrupt-french-nuclear-power-plant-for-second-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/397683\/","title":{"rendered":"Jellyfish disrupt French nuclear power plant for second time"},"content":{"rendered":"

A swarm of jellyfish has caused major disruption at one of France’s largest nuclear power plants, for the second time in a month.<\/p>\n

The jellyfish entered the filters of the pumping station and the Paluel nuclear plant, France’s national energy firm EDF said.<\/p>\n

The incident reduced output at the plant in Normandy by 2.4 gigawatts and crews are working to restore it to full operation.<\/p>\n

In August, generation at another major nuclear site in France was also disrupted by jellyfish, after a “massive and unpredictable” swarm forced the Gravelines plant to temporarily cease operations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The hit represents a near halving of Paluel’s 5.2 gigawatt output, after one of its four reactors was shut down and a second was reduced as a protective measure.<\/p>\n

Nuclear makes up about 70% of Frances’ energy consumption, according to the World Nuclear Association (WNA).<\/p>\n

Paluel is one of France’s largest nuclear power plants, with each of its four units generating over 1,300 megawatts of power.<\/p>\n

EDF said in a statement that they took the measures at 21:00 local time (19:00 GMT) after the “arrival of jellyfish” in the filters of the non-nuclear part of the plant.<\/p>\n

The company added that its teams were “carrying out the necessary diagnostics and interventions” to get both reactors fully back online. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A swarm of jellyfish has caused major disruption at one of France’s largest nuclear power plants, for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-397683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115146959480187012","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397683","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=397683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}