French nuclear plant shuts down due to swarm of jellyfish in cooling systems

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toomuchtodo · 2h ago

This is relevant based on recent policy discussions in France of potentially slowing the pace of renewables deployments due to impairing the financials of EDF (who operates their nuclear fleet). Luckily, they did not come into force, but France is in desperate need of battery storage and more interconnect capacity to export it's excess power and better orchestrate nuclear vs renewables during climate events (where nuclear output requires curtailment due to operating limitations).

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French nuclear plant shuts down due to swarm of jellyfish in cooling systems

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