Four nuclear reactors of the Gravelines power station in the north were automatically stopped on Sunday night and Monday morning due to an influx of jellyfish in the cooling water filtration systems, EDF announced on Monday morning. The North Sea has several species of jellyfish that often approach the ribs when the water temperature increases.
“These judgments are consecutive to the massive and non -predicible presence of jellyfish in the filter drums of the pumping stations, located in part non -nuclear of the facilities,” EDF said in a press release published Monday morning, specifying that these judgments “had no consequence of the safety of the facilities, the safety of the personnel or the environment.”
Two other maintenance reactors
Production Units No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4 were automatically stopped this Sunday night between 11 PM and midnight, before the Production Unit 6 is automatically stopped this Monday morning at 6:20 am “The central teams are mobilized and currently carry out the necessary diagnoses and interventions to restart the production units with total security,” EDF specifies.
The gravels, one of the main electrical plants in France, cool thanks to the water pumped in a channel connected to the North Sea. Its six pressurized water reactors produce 900 megawatts each, or 5.5 gigawatts in total. The entire energy station now stops temporarily because the last two reactors (No. 1 and No. 5) are currently at the maintenance stop.
Source: BFM TV
