An invasion of fearsome, spineless, gooey jellyfish managed to force the shutdown of Sweden's largest nuclear power plant earlier this week. <br /><br />A swarm of Aurelia aurita, or moon jellyfish, attacked one of the reactors at Oskarshamn nuclear plant, which sits on the Baltic Sea coast in southeastern Sweden, causing a three-day outage.<br /><br />In an incident that the New York Times said evoked "B-grade sci-fi movie plots from the 1950s," the saucer-shaped sea animals deviously clogged the pipes that conduct cool water to the turbines of the complex's 1,400-megawatt Unit 3.<br /><br />"The operations management at unit O3 chose to disconnect the facility from the grid at noon on Sunday due to a large amount of jellyfish present at the cooling water intake," said a statement by Oskarshamns Kraftgrupp AB, the company that operates the plant, according to a CNN report. "This decision is a preventive safety measure in order for the unit to not be automatically shut down due to too-low cooling in the condenser."<br /><br />Engineers managed to clear the no doubt slimy pipes, and Oskarhamn Unit 3<br />was back to being fully operational on Wednesday.<br /><br />According to the plant's operator, however, the multi-tentacled menace persists! <br /><br />"We hope we have solved the problem regarding the jellyfish, but we are not sure because they can come back," Anders Osterberg, a spokesman for the operator told the New York Times.<br /><br />They're not resting on their laurels, though, and have amply prepared themselves in the event of a second strike once the jellyfish regroup, alter their strategy and go back on the offense. <br /><br />"Furthermore we have reinforced our clearing system to deal with any future jellyfish invasions," the outlets quoted OKG as saying in a statement.<br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Daily videos brought to you by THE Taiwanese Animators behind the infamous Tiger Woods animation. We got the funniest animations on the web to help you stay in-the-know on all the trending stories, so sit back, relax, and watch a few.<br /><br />Visit our channel for your daily dose of Taiwanese Animations:<br />https://www.youtube.com/user/TomoNewsUS<br /><br />Wish all your news was animated? Subscribe now:<br />http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=TomoNewsUS<br /><br />Can't get enough of Taiwanese animations? Connected with us here:<br />Facebook http://www.facebook.com/NMAtv<br />Twitter @nmatv http://www.twitter.com/nmatv<br />Tumblr http://nmatv.tumblr.com<br />Google+ http://gplus.to/NMAtv<br />Web http://us.tomonews.net/category/usa/category_usa/lolmode_usa/
