Police, Fire Crews Called to Scottish Nuclear Plant
Date: 28-Dec-05
Country: UK
No one was evacuated and production continued at the Torness plant, about 40 km east of the Scottish capital, Edinburgh, after the incident at 2050 GMT on Thursday, the spokesman said.
He said an investigation was under way into the behaviour of fuel rods stored in a pond at the plant, where staff noticed the rods doing something unusual.
"We are looking into what has triggered this anomalous behaviour," the spokesman said. "British Energy staff are investigating and will continue to do so overnight."
He added that no one had been in danger during the incident.
"Nobody has been evacuated," the spokesman added. "Both reactors are still on."
Torness opened in 1988 and employs nearly 500 people. One of its two reactors was shut for seven months in May 2002 after engineers found gas circulator faults.
British Energy is the country's biggest electricity producer, with eight nuclear power stations and one coal plant.
