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LONDON (AP) — Two people have been hospitalized after a fire broke out at the shipyard that builds Britain's nuclear-powered submarines, but there is “no nuclear risk,” police said Wednesday.
The inferno has been billowing from an area where a £1.6bn Astute-class nuclear submarine is being assembled, it is understood. The fire continues to rage on hours after it was first reported.