A fire broke out Thursday at a nuclear power plant that was damaged in a July earthquake in northwestern Japan, but no radioactive material was leaked, the Associated Press quoted plant officials as saying. The fire, which was extinguished by a plant worker, started from a power cable of an air conditioner on the roof of a building at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant, according to Shogo Fukuda, a spokesman of Tokyo Electric Power Co., which operates the plant. The fire occurred outside the restricted area, and there was no danger of a radiation leak, Fukuda said. Firefighters later confirmed that the fire was extinguished in about half an hour. Nobody was injured in the fire, but the extent of damage to the plant was not immediately known, the spokesman said. The cause of the fire was currently under investigation, he said.
