A nuclear king industrial plant in Southern California is being pullulate bylegions of jellyfish - like creature . BUT CAN THEY BE STOPPED ?
The Los Angeles Timesreportsthat the eldritch , gooey beasts , called salp , usually remain far off the coasts , but for some unknown reason they ’ve migrated to the Diablo Canyon plant life in San Luis Obispo . The plants operator , PG&E has been forced to cut production because of the event :
Workers on Monday discover an influx of the creatures , called salp , choke screens that are used to keep maritime life out of the seawater used as a coolant , Cuddy say . Often thronging many square miles of sea in Brobdingnagian , gelatinous masses , salp are tubular , crystalline organisms that can be roughly the size of a human quarter round . No one knows how many are at the Avila Beach plant or how long they will rest .
The tool are n’t each that big — there are just too many of them . harmonize to officials , the salpa will likely dissipate after a few days . Apparently it ’s not that unearthly for jellyfish to drove power plant . It ’s just that no one seems to have a effective account .
They pose no threat you say ? Surrrrrrrrrrre they do n’t . [ LATimes ]
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