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A U.S. nuclear reactor that only got up and running earlier this year after being delayed for decades has shut down following a fire. Unit 2 at the Watts Bar complex near Knoxville, Tennessee, went offline automatically late Tuesday because of a transformer fire, Jim Hopson, a spokesman for plant operator Tennessee Valley Authority, said in an e-mail. There were no injuries as a result of the blaze, which has been extinguished.
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