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dpb

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On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:14:36 -0500, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:

Three Mile ISland...

On Turesday there was a huge power outage in Florida caused by a shut
down of a nuke plant for safety issues.

NO!!!

There was an a outage, the cause of which is still undetermined.

"Two nuclear reactors at Florida Power & Light's Turkey Point station in
South Florida shut down Tuesday afternoon, the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission said.

It is unclear if the loss of power caused the outage or if the outage
caused the reactors to trip. "Turkey Point temporarily lost off-site
power, and both reactors tripped," said NRC spokesman Roger Hannah.

The cause of the outages remains unclear, Tampa Electric spokeswoman
Laura Duda told the newspaper.

She described a "significant disturbance" on the state's electric grid.
It could have been a transmission problem, or a large electricity
generating unit unexpectedly going off line, or another problem
altogether. "We are working with other utilities to figure out what the
problem was," she said."

Whatever it was, it was purely operational, not safety-related.

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