A fire broke out at a nuclear power station in southeast England today but was quickly extinguished with no damage done to the plant's two reactors, a spokesman for the plant said.
The blaze began in a turbine alternator connected to one of two reactors at the Dungeness power plant, 60 miles southeast of London on the Kent coast.
Fire fighters extinguished the fire within an hour and have left the power station operated by government-owned British Nuclear Fuels, spokesman Mr Robin Thornton said.
"It was nothing to do with anything radiological," Mr Thornton said. "Nobody was in any danger," he added.
Each of the station's two reactors have two turbine alternators connected to them. The devices are used to transform nuclear reactions into electrical power.