Transformer fire at Nuclear Plant in Delta, PA

[Ian David]

GLIDE Number: NC-20070227-10093-USA
Date / time: 27/02/2007 19:19:17
Event: Nuclear Event
Area: North-America
Country: USA
State/County: State of Pennsylvania
City: Delta
Number of Deads: None or unknow
Number of Injured: None or unknow
Damage level: Minor

Description:
A transformer at a nuclear plant caught fire Tuesday morning, but the smoky blaze was confined to the non-nuclear side of the plant, company officials said.

The fire, reported at 9:40 a.m., did not pose a threat to the public, said Craig Nesbit, a spokesman for Exelon Nuclear in Warrenville, Illinois, which shares ownership of the Peach Bottom nuclear power plant with New Jersey-based PSE&G. "The fire itself was very small," Nesbit said. "It was mostly smoke."

Power from one of the plant's generating units was reduced following the fire, but it remained online, Nesbit said. Delta is in south-central Pennsylvania.

More:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert_read.php?lang=eng&id=10093

[Sequoia]

1. Of course it's no threat and that's what they said about 3 Mile Island.

[Ian David]

2. I've been looking for weeks to find a picture from Saturday Night Live of Jimmy Carter...

grown into a giant at Three Mile Island.

[Sequoia]

3. I don't recall that episode.

The thing with 3 Mile was that the movie "China Syndrone" came out about the same time.