Tokyo Electric Power Co. said workers extinguished a fire at the world's biggest nuclear power station. There was no radiation leakage.
The fire started at the Kashiwazaki Kariwa plant at about 10:48 a.m. local time today, Shogo Fukuda, a company spokesman, said by telephone. Tokyo Electric, Asia's largest generator, and local fire fighters are investigating the cause of the fire at a cable supplying power to an air conditioner on the roof of a building adjacent to the facility's No. 1 nuclear reactor.
Tokyo Electric's Kashiwazaki Kariwa plant in the northern prefecture of Niigata has been shut since July 16, when an earthquake sparked a fire and caused radiation leaks. The utility has been conducting inspections and repairs on plant equipment damaged by the tremor.
“We found a small fire when workers were in the middle of repair work on a coolant condenser,'' Fukuda said. “At 10:51, we called the local fire department, which confirmed, at 11:26, that the fire was under control.''
