California Nuclear Plant Operator: No further description of fire could be provided — “Cause was still unclear”

Published: April 21st, 2012 at 8:17 pm ET
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Follow-up to: Fire at California's San Onofre nuclear plant burns for over 40 minutes -- Cause unknown

Title: KEY ISSUE IDENTIFIED IN IDLED REACTOR AT SAN ONOFRE PLANT
Source: San Diego Union Tribune
Date: Apr. 21, 2012

[...] Also Friday, the plant operator reported that a fire broke out at 12:49 p.m. in the plant’s turbine room outside the reactor containment dome on the northern reactor, Unit 2. The flame was extinguished at 1:41 p.m. by the plant’s own fire department. There were no injuries, Edison said in a written statement. 

The fire took place “in an electrical panel,” the statement said. Edison spokeswoman Jennifer Manfre could provide no further description of the fire, and its cause was still unclear.

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Published: April 21st, 2012 at 8:17 pm ET
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