Earth Watch Report - Nuclear Event
Fire hits Swedish nuke plant near Gothenburg
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| 12.06.2013 | Nuclear Event | Sweden | Varberg Municipality, [Ringhals Nuclear Power Plant] |  |  |
Nuclear Event in Sweden on Wednesday, 12 June, 2013 at 10:27 (10:27 AM) UTC.
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| A small fire broke out at the Ringhals nuclear power plant in western Sweden on Wednesday morning, less than a day after the reactor had been restarted. The blaze started shortly after 9am at Ringhals' Reactor 1 and was extinguished less than an hour later. "The smoke came from oil inside the insulation on one or several of the pipes in the turbine hall," emergency services spokesman Roger Banck said. However, the reactor continues to operate at half capacity and it remains unclear how long it will continue to do so. "Now we have to disassemble certain parts in order to access where the fire took place and see what the damage is and we don't know how long that will take," Ringshals spokesman Gosta Larsen said. Ringhals' Reactor 1 was restarted on Tuesday after having been shut down the day before due to a broken meter. The reactor had been closed for inspection for the previous five weeks and it was undergoing a test run when the meter malfunction was discovered. Reactor 4, which also remains shuttered for a safety review, is supposed to be restarted on Sunday. |
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