Tag: "Scotland"

Jellyfish Invasions Force Nuclear Power Plants to Shut Down

Jellyfish Invasions Force Nuclear Power Plants to Shut Down

Massive amounts of jellyfish have forced the shutdown of nuclear power plants in Japan, Scotland and Israel in the past few weeks. All of these nuclear power plants use seawater to cool its reactors. Marine life is constantly being sucked in by the coolers, but now hundreds of jellyfish are invading the cooling systems causing [...]

Jul 11, 2011 | 0 comments View Post
An adult female bottlenose dolphin with her young, Moray Firth, Scotland - Photographer: Peter Asprey - http://www.peter-asprey.com/

Scotland’s Only ‘Protected’ Dolphin Population Threatened by Military Exercise

The BBC UK posted an article today about conservations claiming the moving of Europe’s biggest military exercise to the outer Moray Firth poses a threat to bottlenose dolphins.

Joint Warrior, Europe’s largest military exercise that includes up to 20 warships, 4 submarines and 40 aircraft from 9 countries, is taking place over two weeks that began on October 5, 2009.

Oct 13, 2009 | 0 comments View Post