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The Battalion
Wednesday, May 1,1991
Officials report no radiation leaks, injuries in Maine blaze
Fire damages nuclear plant
WISCASSET, Maine (AP) —
Fire severely damaged the non
nuclear part of the Maine Yankee
nuclear power plant, officials
said Tuesday. They said the re
actor shut down normally, no ra
diation was released and nobody
was injured.
U.S. Rep. Thomas Andrews
accused Maine Yankee officials
of withholding details about the
fire's severity when it began
Monday night. Plant officials
denied trying to downplay it.
"The public has a right to
know exactly what occurred,"
said Andrews, a Maine Demo
crat. "They should be given all
the details surrounding the acci
dent and the ensuing investiga
tion as quickly as possible."
On Monday night, Maine Yan
kee officials confirmed a fire had
broken out, but gave no indica
tion of its severity and said they
could provide no details until
Tuesday. Late Tuesday morn
ing, the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission revealed the first
description of the fire and details
of the damage.
The company said later Tues
day that the plant's main genera
tor may have sustained "serious
damage" during the fire, but
that it could be several days be
fore the extent was known.
Maine Yankee President
Charles Frizzle said the fire was
"probably the most serious
event" at the plant in its 19
years. He stressed no one was
injured and the blaze posed no
danger to the public.
The fire began 6:32 p.m. Mon
day and was classified as an "un
usual event," the lowest of four
ratings the NRC gives to nuclear
plant incidents.
NRC spokeswoman Diane
Screnci said that authorities on
the scene reported "a loud
boom" preceded the hydrogen
fire, but she said investigators
were unsure whether an explo
sion occurred.
The NRC's initial report of the
incident said "reports were re-
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main transformer and of mul
tiple hydrogen fires in the tur
bine hall."
Charles Marschall, the NRC's
senior resident inspector at the
plant, said the fire was fueled by
hydrogen and damaged the
plant's main transformer, electri
cal conductors and wires leading
from the generator to the trans
former.
The transformer feeds electric
ity produced by the plant to the
transmission system outside the
plant, the company said.
"I don't want to downgrade
the seriousness of the event, but
it's not a nuclear event," Frizzle
said at a news conference Tues
day afternoon. "From my per
spective, this should not reflect
negatively on the use of nuclear
power. It has nothing to do with
nuclear power."
If the generator is not dam
aged, the plant will be shut
down for several weeks while of
ficials replace the transformer. If
the generator is inoperable, the
plant may be down for several
months while a new generator is
installed. Frizzle said.
Officials were investigating
the source of the fire, which oc
curred 100 to 200 feet from the
containment building that en
cases the plant's nuclear reactor
within a 4V2-foot wall of concrete
reinforced with steel.
The plant was operating nor
mally when the main trans
former failed and the reactor
shut down automatically, offi
cials said.
Frizzle said the fire probably
began with a fault, or short, in
the transformer or sparks in the
generator that could have ig
nited hydrogen, which is used as
a coolant for the generator.
"Both scenarios are equally
likely," he said.
The fire was fueled by leaks in
hydrogen lines running under
the generator, officials said.
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