The spineless foe

 

It’s easy to deal with an enemy who has a spine. The spineless ones are more lethal. Jellyfish don’t have a spine and that makes them a challenging foe for powerful nuclear plants. The slimy adversaries briefly shut down a huge nuclear plant in France recently.

Nuclear power plants need a regular inflow of water for cooling their turbines and reactors. To ensure continuous supply to the plant’s water intake pipes, the majority of nuclear plants are situated along coastlines. The intake pipes have grated screen to filter out the solid material from rushing in and clog the system. Further, nuclear power plants need millions of gallons of water every day to keep the system from getting overheated and cause catastrophe. Even a day’s water stoppage can wreak havoc.

In this recent instance in France, millions of jellyfish got glued to the grated screen thus clogging the entry point and as a result disrupted the water supply. In such a scenario, the inflow of water stops and the plant’s condensers, turbines and boilers groan with agony forcing the reactor to be shut down.

So when the jellyfish get unified, clamped with solidarity with each other, they can even force stop a nuclear plant. If you band together, you can clog the lifeline of your bigger adversary.

The instances of the jellyfish banding together to disturb mighty power plants have occurred in Japan, Israel, Scotland and Sweden earlier. So if somebody calls you spineless, take the insult but remember your worth. You are more fatal as a spineless enemy.

The spiny ones can be obliterated this way or that. Their brash burst of energy exposes them to chances of self-annihilation; their journey a chronicle of sordid madness.

It’s the spineless ones, with their quieter nuances and indomitable scheming spirit, who perpetuate blatant cheatings and give you more cuts than the ones with perfect spine and come to confront you from the front.