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phantom power Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-27-08 01:34 PM
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Florida's blackout was triggered by a substation failure.
Edited on Wed Feb-27-08 01:42 PM by phantom power
MIAMI — Energy experts are trying to figure out today why a small malfunction shut down a major nuclear power plant and knocked out electricity to one-sixth of Florida's population.

As many as 3 million people from Daytona Beach to the Keys lost power Tuesday when an equipment glitch at a transmission substation triggered the shutdown of two Turkey Point nuclear reactors and a natural gas power plant south of Miami.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-02-26-florida-power-outage_N.htm
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-27-08 01:37 PM
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1. at least it wasn't a terrorist
the teller at the bank thought it was surely a terrorist incident. I didn't think it likely, but didn't say anything at the time.
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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-27-08 01:37 PM
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2. as an aside, I first read the headling as "Florida's outRage was triggered..."
I expected an entirely different thread than the one I opened!
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hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-27-08 02:25 PM
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3. Boring old network failure. But someone said "NUCLEAR!"
Oh no!
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Nihil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-28-08 04:45 AM
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4. Yep ...
If they'd only reported the shutdown of the gas-fired plant with as much
frenzied hype then one might have thought they were just excitable journo's
on a slow news day (rather than brain-dead tossers with no concept of SOP).

Personally, I loved all of the Three Mile Island nostalgic reminiscing that
blossomed across DU like fungus in a cow pat ...
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