Florida outage
Via outages:
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Grid status:
An apparent massive equipment failure at a Florida Power & Light substation in the Miami area triggered the two nuclear reactors at the company's Turkey Point to halt. The Fla Nuclear Commission confirmed this. The shut reactors caused sub grids 4,5, 6, 7 and 8 to drain power from up state and west state, as the Dade/Broward counties have a high demand. Restoration time update: between 06:00 and 07:00 PM near to normal operation is expected.
There was indeed a squad off McDill in the air near the coastal plant, but that's a daily routine. There is NO reason to assume this has anything to do with the reactor closing.
Rgds
FTM/Ray Jones
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Contrary to news reports on CNN and AP there were NOT eight nor five reactors affected. We haven't got that many:) The Crystal River reactor and St. Lucie twin reactors (fossil and gas) have not been affected, though all have noticed the drain dip of course.
Operations at Turkey Point is now near back to normal with less than 100,000 customers state wide to be restored. Full completion expected around 07:00 PM this evening.
Rgds
FTM/Ray Jones
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See also: Florida Power and Light
Elsewhere: arstechnica.com has a nice post with a summary of some topical NANOG content.
