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• More on Last Week's Florida Power Outage

  For those who have not heard what the cause was : A Florida Power & Light engineer not following proper procedure was the sole cause of Tuesday's massive power outage that left millions without electricity throughout the state for a few hours, FPL officials said Friday. ... FPL President Armando Olivera said a preliminary investigation found that not one customer would have lost power had proper... Posted Mar 03 2008, 03:08 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: FP&L, Outage

• Florida's Power Outage

  A widespread power outage in Florida occurred just after 1 PM Eastern today affecting several millions of Florida customers. Two of Florida's five nuclear reactors were shutdown as a result of the outage. Here is a statement from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission : At approximately 1:09 p.m. today, Turkey Point's two nuclear reactors (units 3 and 4) automatically shut down from 100% power in... Posted Feb 26 2008, 06:52 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: FP&L, Outage