[CharlesWayneCT]

On the other hand, half of florida went black for a while a couple of nights ago because of an incident at a nuclear facility.

Pretty much any generating plant CAN experience failure of some sort which requires rebalancing the grid or having blackouts.

[meyer]

On the other hand, half of florida went black for a while a couple of nights ago because of an incident at a nuclear facility.

Actually, despite the AP's best spin, Florida had a major blackout due to an incident at a substation that triggered the shutdown of two nuclear generating units at Turkey Point as well as a total of 9 fossil-powered generating units and more than 20 transmission lines. The result was the loss of about 3800 megawatts of customer load through either the loss of supply or through automatic load-shedding devices (had these automatic load shedding devices not been present, the blackout would have cascaded and spread much further).

The Nuclear plant shutdown was not the cause of the blackout, nor would it be as long as utilities in that state are/were following NERC-mandated contingency-based policy.

[aumrl]

I DON’T BELIEVE THERE WAS ANY ACCIDENT AT A NUCLEAR FACILITY!

[OCCASparky]

On the other hand, half of florida went black for a while a couple of nights ago because of an incident at a nuclear facility.

Been listening to the MSM again, eh? The AP THINKS it was Turkey Point, but the evidence (thus far) is pointing to a substation fault (namely, a reactor created a 3-phase fault) which caused a transformer (a big one) to blow, and the resulting grid surge is what caused not only the two nuke plants, but the three conventional ones at Turkey Point to trip.

IOW, the AP is talking out their ass. The root cause team likely hasn't even been formed yet. They're probably still gathering data from the ISO and various stations and the cause won't likely be pinned down for several WEEKS, at least.