A squadron of the Qandil forces closing at the French nuclear power station Nuclear Energy News

Scientists say that the warmer water in the North Sea due to climate change has created conditions that allow the jellyfish to prosper and reproduce.

The French Energy Group Electricite De France (EDF) said that

Three reactor units were automatically closed on Sunday evening in Gravelines on the English channel, followed by the fourth early Monday morning, adding that the safety of the factory and its employees and the environment were not in danger.

“This closure is the result of the existence of an unpredictable and unpredictable sea lamp in the candidate barrels of pumping stations,” EDF said in a statement.

The factory in northern France is one of the largest plants in the country and is cooled from a channel connected to the North Sea.

EDF said that the teams are performing searches to restart the site “in complete safety”, adding that the reactors that were suspended are expected to restart on Thursday.

The beaches surrounding gravel, among the main cities of Dunkirk and Calais, have seen an increase in jellyfish in recent years due to warming water and the introduction of gas species.

The atomic scientists newsletter wrote in 2021 that the swarms of jellyfish that suffer from nuclear power plants are “new or unknown” and there was a great economic cost due to the forced closure of the power plants.

Scientists are currently exploring ways to avoid closure due to swarms, including the use of drones to draw a map of the jellyfish movement, allowing early intervention.

“The jellyfish multiplies faster when the water is warmer, and because areas like the North Sea have become warmer, the reproductive window becomes wider and broader,” Derek Wright, a marine biology advisor to the National Petroleum News Department and the atmosphere, told Reuters.

He said: “The jellyfish can also run on the ships of the tankers, and enter the cabinet tank in the ships in one port and often pump into the water in the middle of the road all over the world.”

The invading species known as the Asian Moon Blames, the original in the northwest of the Pacific Ocean, was seen for the first time in the North Sea in 2020. This type, which prefers water that is still at high levels of animal plankton, such as those in ports and channels, caused similar problems in the ports and nuclear plants in China, Japan and India.

EDF said that he does not know the types of jellyfish participating in the closure, but this is not the first time that the jellyfish closed a nuclear facility, although these incidents were “very rare” – the recent effect on EDF operations in the 1990s was.

There were cases of plants in other countries that were closed due to the invasions of jellyfish, especially a three -day closure in Sweden in 2013 and a 1999 accident in Japan, which caused a significant decrease in energy production.

Experts say overfishing, plastic pollution and climate change have created conditions for jellyfish to flourish and multiply.

EDF said that there was no risk of energy lack due to the closure, saying that other energy sources, including solar energy, were working.