Feds Say Nuclear Equipment Failures Led to Shutdowns at Turkey Point

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Izzy Kapnick for the Miami New Times writes:

Control-room alerts repeatedly rang out at Florida Power and Light’s Turkey Point nuclear plant near Homestead as a reactor underwent three unplanned shutdowns during a four-day period this past August. FPL struggled to get the reactor back online; at one point inexperienced operators ramped up the power rate so quickly that a safety system kicked in and killed the process.

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