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#Jellyfish Shut Four French #NuclearReactors as #HeatWave Builds

By Eamon Farhat
August 11, 2025

"#Electricite de France SA [#EDF] was forced to shut four #AtomicReactors after a swarm of jellyfish clogged up filter drums at its #Gravelines power plant.

"The 'massive and unforeseen' [um, not if you read my posts -- very much FORESEEN] presence of jellyfish in the filter drums of pumping stations closed four out of six reactors at Gravelines on the north coast of France, EDF said in a statement on Monday. Pumping stations for coastal #NuclearPlants usually draw in sea water for cooling, sometimes exposing them to marine life.

"A #MarineHeatWave is intensifying off the west coast of France, with unusually warm waters in the English Channel near Gravelines, data from #Copernicus Marine Service show. Jellyfish populations can 'bloom' at such times, and France has closed several beaches in recent weeks due to invasions of the eight-legged molluscs, according reports compiled by the beach information app Meduseo."

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#EuropeHeatWaves #France #Jellyfish #RethinkNotRestart #NoNukes #NoNukesForAI #NuclearPowerNoThanks #NuclearWasteIsForever #NuclearPowerPlants #ExtremeHeat #RenewablesNow #RenewableEnergy #RethinkNotRestart
#LeNucléaireNonMerci

earthling Jul 17

Chernobyl Utopia in Flames (2023)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27721467/

Comprehensive background of events leading to the 1986 accident.

Best explanation of the RBMK reactors.

#NuclearReactors
#NuclearAccidents
#Chernobyl
#Pripyat
#documentaries

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Jun 14

“In April 2025, for the first time, #solarpanels generated more #electricity than #nuclearreactors worldwide.” adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-...

Blaze Trends Jun 13

Mexican Town Seizes Pemex Reactors Amid Security, Job Concerns

#EnergyCrisis #environmentalissues #Mexico #nonnuclearreactors #nuclearreactors
https://blazetrends.com/mexican-town-seizes-pemex-reactors-amid-security-job-concerns/?fsp_sid=49846

Mexican Town Seizes Pemex Reactors Amid Security, Job Concerns

Tensions are running high in a Mexican community where residents have taken matters into their own hands. They've seized two massive reactors from a major

Blaze Trends

Alo Japan May 29

https://www.alojapan.com/1285070/japan-puts-fukushima-soil-in-prime-ministers-flower-beds-to-show-its-safe/ Japan Puts Fukushima Soil in Prime Minister’s Flower Beds to Show It’s Safe #Japan #JapanNews #news #NuclearReactors #NuclearWaste In March 2011, an earthquake triggered a massive tsunami along Japan’s coast. The surging waters caused the Fukushima Daiichi power plant to lose power. As a result, the cooling systems of three reactors failed, and their cores experienced a partial meltdown, releasing radiation into the environment in the s…

Ars Technica News May 27

Trump signs executive orders meant to resurrect US nuclear power https://arstechni.ca/chYu #nuclearregulatorycommission #nuclearreactors #nuclearpower #Science #Policy #Energy

Trump signs executive orders meant to resurrect US nuclear power

Plan calls for three new reactors to reach criticality in about a year.

Ars Technica

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John E. Bartley, III (D) K7AAY May 15

Operating permit issued for Chinese molten salt reactor. The Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has been granted an operating licence for the experimental TMSR-LF1 thorium-powered molten-salt reactor, construction of which started in Wuwei city, Gansu province, in September 2018.

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Operating-permit-issued-for-Chinese-molten-salt-re
#nuclear #NuclearPower #nuclearreactors #U233 #thorium #greenpower

Operating permit issued for Chinese molten salt reactor

The Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has been granted an operating licence for the experimental TMSR-LF1 thorium-powered molten-salt reactor, construction of which started in Wuwei city, Gansu province, in September 2018.;

World Nuclear News

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John E. Bartley, III (D) K7AAY May 15

Why China's Thorium-Fueled TMSR-LF1 Reactor is a Really Big Deal
https://eriktownsend.substack.com/p/why-chinas-thorium-fueled-tmsr-lf1
#nuclear #NuclearPower #nuclearreactors #U233 #thorium #greenpower

Why China's Thorium-Fueled TMSR-LF1 Reactor is a Really Big Deal

Part I: Development History of the TMSR-LF1 Thorium-Fueled Molten Salt Reactor

Erik’s Substack

John E. Bartley, III (D) K7AAY May 15

China’s TMSR-LF1 Molten Salt Thorium Reactor Begins Live Refueling Operations
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/19/chinas-tmsr-lf1-molten-salt-thorium-reactor-begins-live-refueling-operations

#nuclear #NuclearPower #nuclearreactors #U233 #thorium #greenpower

China’s TMSR-LF1 Molten Salt Thorium Reactor Begins Live Refueling Operations

Although uranium-235 is the typical fuel for commercial fission reactors on account of it being fissile, it’s relatively rare relative to the fertile U-238 and thorium (Th-232). Using either …

Hackaday

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☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻Apr 26

Day 27 cont 🗺️📍🧭
“Here's where your political #leaders have been campaigning so far”

Where are they missing?

“Neither of the leaders has set foot in an #Indigenous community. That is despite the #PM's(#Labor) victory speech from 2022 opening with a commitment to the #Uluru #Statement from the Heart.” (NB: Labor was the Party to hold, “The Voice” referendum.)

“Mr #Dutton (#LNP / #Liberal / #Nationals / ##Coalition) has been noticeably absent from sites where ☢️ #NuclearReactors ☢️ would be built under his proposed #power plan, and he has deflected #questions from #journalists about when he might visit.”

#AusPol / #elections / #missing <https://abc.net.au/news/2025-04-24/where-political-leaders-have-been-so-far-albanese-dutton/105196814>

Here's where your political leaders have been campaigning so far

Peter Dutton and Anthony Albanese have yet to set foot in an Indigenous community during their election campaigns. However, both have made multiple visits to Melbourne.

ABC News