A fire broke out a nuclear plant in northern Germany today but was quickly put out by the plant's fire brigade today, the local government said.
The 1,402 megawatt plant, operated by the Swedish/German utility Vattanfall utility group and by Germany's E.ON, has been closed since June 28th, 2007, when a fire at a transformer substation.
The Social Affairs Ministry in the northern state of Schleswig Holstein said that the incident had taken place around 7am and had been resolved an hour later.
Vattenfall said there had been a smouldering fire at a ventilation system but that no radioactive substances had been released.
Germany is in the process of phasing out nuclear power by 2020 under plans agreed by the previous coalition of Social Democrats and Greens.