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| Nuke plant shutdown cuts power in Fla. |
| 2008-02-26 |
| MIAMI - Florida's largest electric company shut down a nuclear reactor south of Miami for safety reasons Tuesday, causing sporadic power outages covering large portions of the state that could last well into the night. More than 3 million people are affected, the state says. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said that the two Florida Power & Light nuclear reactors at its Turkey Point power point 30 miles south of Miami automatically shut down. Two other power plants farther north, the Crystal River reactor and St. Lucie twin reactors, in the state continued to operate, although officials at those two facilities noticed the grid disturbance. "We don't know whether the grid disturbance caused the units to shut down or that their shut down caused the grid disturbance," said Kenneth Clark, a spokesman at the NRC regional office in Atlanta. He said the two reactors were automatically shut down and in safe standby. "There are no safety concerns. The reactors shut down as designed," said Clark in a telephone interview. He said both reactor continued to have offsite electric power. He said two coal-burning power plants at Turkey Point also shut down. FPL in several media interviews estimated that power should be up statewide within 10 hours. The company did not return repeated calls from The Associated Press or speak to a reporter in the lobby of its Juno Beach headquarters. Outages appear to be concentrated in the southeast portion of the state, including Miami, but were also reported in along the southwest coast and northeastern part of the state as well as in the Florida Keys. The outages began shortly after 1 p.m. EST, though power in some affected areas had been restored an hour later. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #11 Frank G, they got nothing on the A-Holes that drive the beltway around DC, especially the Maryland side. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-02-26 23:37 |
| #10 Yeah, there was a clip on NBC which showed two lanes of traffic in an intersection bisecting four lanes headed the other way. Real eye-popper: how'd that happen?? |
| Posted by: KBK 2008-02-26 23:17 |
| #9 btw - Fox showed the So. Floridians' traffic manners. No wonder weapons are often displayed. The most ignorant, uninformed traffic manners I've ever seen...but I've never been in NY, so maybe I'm naive |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-02-26 21:19 |
| #8 They better get that shit up and running before November. Those clowns have a hard enough time voting as it is. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2008-02-26 21:18 |
| #7 I'd rather be stuck without having had a grande mocha latte-extrahot piss-in-your-pants big ol' cup of discomfort (I guess you could refill the cup in the dark, huh?) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-02-26 21:16 |
| #6 And, Frank, think of the chaos of the combination of being stuck in an elevator with NO Starbucks to boot! Oh, the humanity. Funny thing is, the article a buddy of mine sent me was written about all the chaos going on in Miami-Dade (a few accidents b/c of traffic lights out, schools shut down w/ parents rushing around to pick up kids, etc.), and then cut to interview some metrosexual in Boca Raton at the mall, saying "It is romantic" to eat at the food court w/o lights. What a trip. |
| Posted by: BA 2008-02-26 20:45 |
| #5 What's ironic about this is that this nuke plant was planning on expanding soon (at least 1 more reactor). Guess the "greenies" will keep that from happening, even though the plant shut down as it was supposed to, w/o any releases. And, the other ironic thing is, this very plant was just featured in an episode of CSI-Miami as a terror target. Of course, it was a rerun, so I don't think it's "coincidence". |
| Posted by: BA 2008-02-26 20:41 |
| #4 As usual, the title is unsupported by the article. FOUR units, two nukes and two coalies, went offline. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2008-02-26 19:32 |
| #3 Think of all the poor bastards that are gonna miss the Early Bird Specials... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-02-26 19:09 |
| #2 I'm dying to hear the excuse of the actual person responsible for the sub-station's maintenance. He or she gets up everyday with the sole purpose of keeping that network primed, running efficiently and reporting problems. Ohh boy I can't wait for the 'blackbox' paper work to be revealed! Here comes..."But it was an unmanned facility!". |
| Posted by: smn 2008-02-26 19:01 |
| #1 think of all the poor bastards trapped in elevators |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-02-26 18:38 |