Yet nothing that has not happened before. There are even tools to predict swarms
The Torness nuclear plant in Scotland, which is also owned by EDF, was forced to shut for a week in 2021 after jellyfish clogged the seaweed filters on its water intake pipes, a decade after jellyfish shut the plant for a week in 2011.
Jellyfish swarms have also closed nuclear and coal power plants in Sweden, the US, Japan, and even caused a major blackout in the Philippines in 1999 that some mistakenly feared was linked to the Y2K bug or a government
Also two South Korea plants have been affected in the past.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/11/swarm-of-jellyfish-shuts-nuclear-power-plant-in-france
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