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Submission + - Toxic "forever chemicals" found in 95% of beers tested in the U.S. (sciencedaily.com)

alternative_right writes: Forever chemicals known as PFAS have turned up in an unexpected place: beer. Researchers tested 23 different beers from across the U.S. and found that 95% contained PFAS, with the highest concentrations showing up in regions with known water contamination. The findings reveal how pollution in municipal water supplies can infiltrate popular products, raising concerns for both consumers and brewers.

Comment Re:Too High a Price for Benefits (Score 1) 29

PFAS are special here because they are quite hard to get rid of. The C-F bond is the most resistant that chemistry can produce, it is very hard to destroy. They are also very hard to excrete from the body: half-life of PFOA (the oldest PFAS) in your blood is several years. As a consequence, the accumulate in the environment and in living organisms, including human beings.

Submission + - Jellyfish swarm forces French nuclear plant to shut (bbc.com)

AmiMoJo writes: A French nuclear plant temporarily shut down on Monday due to a "massive and unpredictable presence of jellyfish" in its filters, its operator said. The swarm clogged up the cooling system and caused four units at the Gravelines nuclear power plant to automatically switch off, energy group EDF said. The plant is cooled from a canal connected to the North Sea — where several species of jellyfish are native and can be seen around the coast when the waters are warm. According to nuclear engineer Ronan Tanguy, the marine animals managed to slip through systems designed to keep them out because of their "gelatinous" bodies. "They were able to evade the first set of filters then get caught in the secondary drum system," he told the BBC. Mr Tanguy, who works at the WNA, said this will have created a blockage which reduced the amount of water being drawn in, prompting the units to shut down automatically as a precaution.

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