On a hot August night, a gang has blocked a giant nuclear power center – and ended 10% of France’s production capacity. But this was a “non-nuclear incident,” says the state-owned company that operates the central.
Last Sunday, a bunch of navels clogged the refrigeration water filters in Severelines, a center of six reactors on the northern coast of France. Four units closed automatically.
It happened at a bad timesince two other reactors were already off for maintenance, leaving the place temporarily silent.
According to the European magazine specializing in energy, the incident basically eliminated 10% of nuclear capacity of the country.
The system, which removes sea water from a northern sea channel, is designed to prevent debris from entering.
But the alpharchers are flexible and slippery and passed through the first nets – eventually stuck in the secondary filters. The resulting block cut the water flow and triggered an automatic closure.
EDF, the state company that operates the installation, stresses that there was no danger and that This was a “non-nuclear” incident. There was no damage to the reactors, no risk to workers or the public, and no significant disturbance in the national network, the company said.
But this kind of problem is becoming surprisingly common, and the climate change only are getting worsenote or.
Although there was a break in energy production, the consequences of the episode are Definitely better than other potential results.
Apparently, the Security systems worked As planned and there was no real risk of damage to nuclear reactors of the affected central – whose employees are now cleaning filters. Once rebel nails are removed, the center will resume its normal operation.
Marine biologists say that warmer waters The time of reproduction of northern northern norts extended.
“Numbers reproduce faster when the water is warmer, and as the areas like the North Sea are getting warmer, the reproductive window is extending more and more“, I told the Marine biologist Derek Wrightconsultant at the US National Ocean and Atmospheric Agency of the United States, NOAA.
“ can also travel on oil shipsentering the ballast tanks of the ships in a port and being often pumped to waters midway by the globe, ”added Wright.
