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Fire

Site Incident

2001

18 January

Hunterston B

Control transformer fire in gas circulator workshop

14 February

Hunterston A

Fire in pit in charge machine maintenance building

18 February

Dungeness A

Fire near No. 1 bearing

14 March

Sellafield

Fire during sawing of camera frame

19 May

Dungeness A

Fire in region of slip ring and alternator on turbo-alternator 2

14 June

Hunterston B

Fire in lagging below pump main bearing

16 June

Harwell

Fire in fan assembly in electrical trunking on Helios 1 linear accelerator facility

20 June

Dounreay

Sodium/potassium fire in Dounreay Fast Reactor sphere

4 July

Sellafield

Fire in portable beta-in-air activity monitor

11 July

Amersham

Fire in administration building

18 July

Dounreay

Fire in sodium/potassium heating loop on Dounreay Fast Reactor

27 July

Berkeley Centre

Sodium and natural uranium fire in fume cupboard

30 August

Harwell

Fire in building 424

27 September

Hunterston B

Air circulation fan motor fire in electrical switch room

23 October

Dungeness B

Fire in canteen deep fat fryer

24 October

Heysham 2

Fire in incinerator fire box

30 October

Dounreay

Uranium residue fire in a D1202 glovebox

14 November

Wylfa

Fire in services switchboard transformer

1 December

Heysham 1

Fire on scaffolding in turbine hall basement

3 December

Hunterston B

Light fitting fire in outage planning building

2002

9 March

Hinkley Point B

Lagging fire on Turbine 8 steam drain lines

11 April

Dungeness B

Smouldering lagging on turbine (1)

11 April

Dungeness B

Smouldering lagging on turbine (2)

29 May

Dounreay

Fire in D1207 roof void

12 July

Oldbury

Circulator lagging fire

13 August

Berkeley Centre

Fire in multiplexor unit

27 November

Hunterston B

Fire in light fitting

21 December

Heysham 1

Fire in turbine electrical terminal box

2003

10 January

Hunterston B

Bearing fire in Main Control Building air conditioning compressor

27 January

Heysham 1

Ignition of expansion joint on pile cap

15 February

Dounreay

Waste drum fire in DN026 waste store

25 April

Heysham 2

Bearing fire in Turbine 8

8 June

Hunterston B

Fire in 415 V electrical supply board

8 July

Heysham 2

Lagging fire on main boiler feed pump

11 July

Dungeness B

Boiler feed pump primary oil pump fire

15 July

Harwell

Fire in B220 Laboratory GB38 fume cupboard

17 July

Wylfa

Light fitting fire above TA1

30 July

Rolls Royce Manufacturing

Swarf fire during machining in Clean Shop

28 August

Barrow

Smouldering plastic during burning-off operation

2 October

Hinkley Point B

Debris fire in R3 Circulator Hall

4 October

Heysham 2

Lagging fire between bearings 4 and 5 of turbine 8

24 October

Devonport

Welding fire in sonar transducer space

16 December

BNFL Capenhurst

Fire in pit beneath smelter

2004

13 January

Sellafield

Two Magnox fuel decanning fires in Fuel Handling Plant

22 January

Hunterston B

Fire in reactor building lift motor room

5 February

Bradwell

Fire in portable water pump to showers in turbine hall

7 March

Hunterston A

Vacuum cleaner motor fire

27 May

Hunterston B

Electric motor fire in low level waste building annex

13 June

Heysham 2

Power supply cubicle fire

17 June

Hinkley Point B

Smouldering wash water pump drive belt

20 July

Berkeley

Fire in building C24

4 October

Hunterston B

Main boiler feed pump lagging fire

13 October

Sizewell A

Inboard pump bearing fire

28 October

Drigg

Combustion of loose waste material

17 November

Bradwell

Fire in reactor building electrical socket

2005

4 February

Heysham 1

Smouldering lagging on turbine

8 March

Heysham 2

Fire on reactor basement sump pump

22 April

Harwell

Capacitor fire in building 459

22 June

Torness

Variable frequency output transformer fire

30 June

Barrow

Portacabin fire

14 July

Heysham 2

Fire in bearing of fuel handling plant extract fan

16 September

Torness

Fire in purge air compressor No. 2

31 October

Dungeness A

Fire in bulk group 4 LF power supply

2006

23 January

Sellafield

Smoking bitumen seal around pipe on Combined Heat and Power Plant turbine

24 March

Dounreay

Hydrogen ignition during waste cutting operation in Prototype Fast Reactor

21 April

Springfields

Uranium shredder fire in building 338

23 October

Heysham 2

Smouldering leak management tray beside hot turbine reheat pipework

23 December

Burghfieid

Smouldering cable in plant room

2007

1 February

Hinkley Point B

Fire in bund of gas circulator lube system

2 June

Hunterston B

Bearing fire on turbogenerator 7

12 August

Heysham 2

Bearing fire in cooling water pump

2008

7 January

Dounreay

Fire in office suite of D1208

13 March

GE Healthcare

Fire in inactive recycling plant

15 June

Rolls Royce Manufacturing

Fire in glove box

2 December

Hartlepool

Aerosol can fire

3 December

Trawsfynydd

Convector heater fire in ponds office

2009

12 March

Heysham 1

Lagging smoke/fire

15 March

GE Healthcare

Fire in services spine duct

31 March

Barrow

Fire on the casing of Astute Boat 2 during welding/grinding operations

18 April

Barrow

Fire on the bridge fin of Astute Boat 1

29 April

Oldbury

Smoking air circuit breaker

18 May

Wylfa

Fire in Turbine alternator


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