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Cleita

(75,480 posts) Wed Apr 25, 2012, 01:41 PM Apr 2012

LULZ! Mother Nature has spoken! El Diablo Nuke Plant

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2012/04/24/2041453/diablo-canyon-nuclear-reactor.html#storylink=omni_popular

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Posted on Tue, Apr. 24, 2012
Diablo Canyon nearly idle after jellyfish-like creatures cause clog
David Sneed

Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant is nearly idle today from the combination of one reactor shut down for refueling and the other operating at only 15 percent capacity due to an influx of small jellyfish-like animals clogging the facility's cooling water intake structure. more at link

It's not nice to ignore Mother Nature!

Plant was able to power down without any brown outs. It's time to decommission this disaster waiting to happen. The plant is wedged between two earthquake faults, one is most notably the San Andreas fault and right next to the ocean. Tsunami anyone? It is built only to withstand a 7.5 mag. quake.

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LULZ! Mother Nature has spoken! El Diablo Nuke Plant (Original Post) Cleita Apr 2012 OP

loe it xchrom Apr 2012 #1

Shut up Luddites! Nothing can ever go wrong! We got it covered! freshwest Apr 2012 #2

I would not laugh too hard nadinbrzezinski Apr 2012 #3

There's a lot of new fauna coming into our warming waters. n/t Cleita Apr 2012 #5

Had to blow down the coffer dams on my boat for similar reasons before. Sirveri Apr 2012 #6

But we need this plant bahrbearian Apr 2012 #4

It's happened elsewhere muriel_volestrangler Apr 2012 #7

Ah! Mother Nature is telling us something. Cleita Apr 2012 #9

Oh goodie! Our own nuclear disaster! lunatica Apr 2012 #8

Not yet. Cleita Apr 2012 #10

xchrom

(108,903 posts)

1. loe it

Reply to Cleita (Original post)

Wed Apr 25, 2012, 02:00 PM

Apr 2012

freshwest

(53,661 posts)

2. Shut up Luddites! Nothing can ever go wrong! We got it covered!

Reply to Cleita (Original post)

Wed Apr 25, 2012, 02:09 PM

Apr 2012

Doh. Another bad idea from the beginning.

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)

3. I would not laugh too hard

Reply to Cleita (Original post)

Wed Apr 25, 2012, 02:14 PM

Apr 2012

Cololing is kind of essential to these things.

That said, iirc these jelly fish are having growths not seen before, thought to be from warmer ocean waters.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)

5. There's a lot of new fauna coming into our warming waters. n/t

Reply to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #3)

Wed Apr 25, 2012, 08:05 PM

Apr 2012

Sirveri

(4,517 posts)

6. Had to blow down the coffer dams on my boat for similar reasons before.

Reply to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #3)

Fri Apr 27, 2012, 02:30 AM

Apr 2012

It's such a PITA, switch to single pump MSW lineup and hook up air hoses, everyone running around so we can answer a flank bell if we need to and don't have to lose A/C(since half the time ASW clogs too).