Star Trek

Here is one that sounds like it could be the start of a science fiction movie:

http://news.yahoo.com/jellyfish-organisms-shut-down-california-power-plant-195650925--abc-news-tech.html

The Story:

The workers of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant received a very slimy surprise this week when they discovered hoards of jellyfish-like creatures clinging to the structure, leading to the shutdown of the plant.

The organisms, called salp, are small sea creatures with a consistency  similar to jellyfish.

The influx of salp was discovered as part of the plant's routine monitoring system, according to Tom Cuddy, the senior manager of external and nuclear communications for the plant's operator, Pacific Gas & Electric.

"We then made the conservative decision to ramp down the affected unit to 20 percent and continued to monitor the situation," Cuddy said. "When the problem continued, we made another conservative decision that it would be safest to curtail the power of the unit."

The salp were clogging the traveling screens in the intake structure, which are meant to keep marine life out and to keep the unit cool.

"Safety is the highest priority," Cuddy said. "We will not restart the unit until the salp moves on and conditions improve. No priority is more important than the safe operation of our facility."

caltrek: What might happen next were you a sci fi writer?

The jelly fish keep expanding their terrain until maybe the director of the plant wakes up with a bunch of them in his bed?

The Navy won't like it if those radioactive jellyfish light up their submarines!

Thus began The Great Salp Uprising. Phase I, radioactive mutation. Phase II, freaking laser beams on their heads.

I never knew that the end of the world would be a jelly fish apoclyps