Photo by Martin Burns
Torness Nuclear Power Station, 20 miles down the road from Edinburgh, was shut down on Tuesday after the discovery of jellyfish on seawater filter screens.
Jellyfish! In the water! Who'dathunk?
It's not the first time that Torness has had to be shut down because of blockages. Seaweed clogged up the cooling water intakes back in 2006, just one of the many incidents at this plant. Earlier this year we had contamination of the groundwater around the site with radiation. And who can forget the time that an RAF Tornado caught fire and crashed into the sea less than a kilometre from the plant?
In America this month, we've had a Nebraska Nuclear Power plant flooded, and as we speak Los Alamos in New Mexico has been evacuated after a wildfire came close to destroying a top-secret nuclear laboratory. And then there's the ongoing problems at Fukushima.
And yet despite the rest of the world seeing nuclear power for what it actually is - the most dangerous way to boil water ever invented - and turning it's back on the technology, the UK government has decided that nuclear is the way to go and has announced the sites of 8 new power stations.
Stupidity reigns supreme.
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