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An emergency was declared at a massive Department of Energy nuclear site in South Carolina after a laboratory fire left one employee with minor injuries, officials said.

The Savannah River Site (SRS) declared a Site Area Emergency at 5:39 p.m. Wednesday after a fire broke out at the Savannah River National Laboratory near Aiken, South Carolina , according to the Department of Energy.

The emergency was terminated at 9:45 p.m. after the fire was extinguished and radiological surveys found no detectable levels of contamination, according to an updated notice from SRS.

One employee was taken to a hospital with minor injuries, a DOE spokesperson told Fox News.

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