The Associated Press
PLYMOUTH, Mass. — Firefighters have extinguished a fire at the Pilgrim Nuclear Station that apparently started in a cabinet in an area that calibrates safety equipment.
A spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission says there were no injuries and no release of radioactivity in the Wednesday night fire in Plymouth, Mass.
Spokesman Neil Sheehan says the fire was detected just after 8 p.m. The fire was in a maintenance building and not in the reactor building.
The Plymouth Fire Department as well as on-site firefighters responded. The sprinkler system also activated.
Because it took more than 10 minutes to extinguish and because an off-site response was needed, it was classified as an “unusual event,” the lowest of four emergencies a plant can declare. The fire remains under investigation.