Washington (Platts)--27Feb2008

Florida Power & Light's units 3 and 4 at its Turkey Point power plant are
shut down following a transmission grid disturbance on Tuesday, the US Nuclear
Regulatory Commission said Wednesday morning in its reactor status report.

The twin 760-MW nuclear units at Turkey Point, along with at least one
natural gas-fired unit at the facility, were shut down on Tuesday as part of a
large outage that affected FP&L and other Florida utilities. The nulcear units
performed as designed and shut down once the transmission grid was unstable,
utility spokesman Alan Griffith said Tuesday.

Units 3 and 4, a few miles south of Miami, were shut down at 1:09 pm EST
Tuesday, according to an event report filed with the NRC. They are in "hot
standby" mode and there is no estimate of when they will exit the outage.

FPL's two other nuclear units in Florida, at its St. Lucie facility, were
not affected by the extensive outage, which appears to have begun at an FP&L
substation.