Savannah River Site in South Carolina says its emergency response has ended after firefighters extinguished a fire at Savannah River National Laboratory. The site’s third official incident update states that the emergency was terminated at 9:45pm Eastern Daylight Time on 28 October, equivalent to 1:45am UK time on 29 October.
According to that update, radiological surveys found no detectable contamination. Protective actions were lifted, site barricades reopened and Highway 125 remained open to through traffic.
The site instructed incoming shift workers to report normally and other employees to attend as scheduled on 29 October. These instructions concern the status reported by the operator; they do not establish the cause of the fire or a final assessment of damage.
This brief reflects the official update checked during the early UK morning on 29 October. No casualty or cause claim is made where the cited statement provides none.
Source: Official announcement, 2026-10-28.
Image credit: File photograph: entrance sign at Savannah River Site, South Carolina, 2 June 2016. Neutral site-identification image; it does not show the fire, damage or the current incident. Bill Golladay / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source photograph · CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized and converted to WebP; image adaptation remains under the same licence.
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