Friday, April 27, 2012

Diablo Canyon nuclear plant in California knocked offline by jellyfish-like creatures called salp

MSNBC: In Japan, it was a monstrous earthquake and tsunami that brought down the Fukushima nuclear plant. In California, it's a tiny, jellyfish-like sea creature called salp that's causing problems at the Diablo Canyon atomic plant. An invasion of salp has prompted Pacific Gas and Electric Co. to temporarily shut down a nuclear reactor at Diablo Canyon, in Avila Beach, San Luisa Obispo County, on the central California coast. A giant swarm of the transluscent barrel-shaped organisms this week clogged...

URL: http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/27/11432974-diablo-canyon-nuclear-plant-in-california-knocked-offline-by-jellyfish-like-creatures-called-salp?lite
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