Officials say there's no danger of radiation leaks after a fire at the Maanshan Nuclear Plant in southern Taiwan. The fire began when sparks from construction work ignited a cooling tower and has since been extinguished by firefighters. The tower was offline at the time, and the plant is generating power as normal.
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00:00A fire at a nuclear power plant in Taiwan is now out and officials say there's no risk
00:07of radiation leaks.
00:10Firefighters rushed to the Ma'anshan plant in Pingdong on Thursday morning after smoke
00:14started billowing out.
00:17They suspect a spark from construction work near the reactor started the blaze.
00:23The cooling tower that caught fire wasn't in use and there are no reported injuries.