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TexasTowelie

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Wed Oct 23, 2019, 06:38 PM Oct 2019

Shutdown of nuke plant has a surprising stinging consequence

STAFFORD TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — The shutdown of one of the nation's oldest nuclear power plants last year is having a surprising, stinging consequence for a New Jersey bay considered one of the nation's most fragile.

The environmental group Save Barnegat Bay held a conference Wednesday where scientists noted the increase of tiny jellyfish near the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant.

The stinging sea nettles that had been sucked into the plant and killed by heated water are now thriving and multiplying.

The influx has some worrying about swimming conditions in the area, while other say the plant closure should begin to restore conditions to where they were before the plant became operational in 1969.

Read more: https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/science/article/Shutdown-of-nuke-plant-has-a-surprising-stinging-14557139.php

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Shutdown of nuke plant has a surprising stinging consequence (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2019 OP
There was a storm last week. LBI, My friends had jellyfish in their garage. 3Hotdogs Oct 2019 #1
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