Alert at Nuclear Plant Called Not Dangerous
Operators at a nuclear plant declared an emergency for several hours when instruments indicated a problem during a planned shutdown.
There were no injuries, no radiation released and no equipment damaged at the LaSalle Generating Station in LaSalle County, about 55 miles southwest of Chicago, officials said.
The nature of the incident -- a control rod not going into the reactor -- automatically triggered the alert, but “it never really progressed into being a danger,” said Patti Thompson, spokeswoman for the state Emergency Management Agency.
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