Mon Feb 02, 2009 at 06:58:54 AM EST
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At least things seemed to work the way they were supposed to:Exelon Nuclear says the fire was in one of the Oyster Creek nuclear plant's two main transformers.
The company says the unit automatically shut down and there was no threat to the public. No one was injured.
Plant operators declared an unusual event at 10:11 p.m. Sunday. The company says the fire was extinguished 16 minutes later and the event ended at 11:37 p.m. Two months ago, the plant was shut down because of an electrical problem. In that case too, the automatic shut down worked as planned. The plant's license expires this April and Excelon has been trying to renew it with the Nuclear Regulatory commission for another twenty years. I can't imagine this is what they wanted as a lead in to the decision. |
| Jason Springer :: Fire shuts down Oyster Creek transformer |
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