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  • Fire at Oyster Creek Nuke Power Plant?

    10/29/2012 6:20:16 PM PDT · by louscat · 16 replies
    October 29 2012 | Louscat
    My son is an EMT and just called me and said there is a fire at Oyster Creek nuke power plant on the New Jersey shore. No other info now available.
  • Oldest US nuclear plant gets a new 20-year license (Oyster Creek)

    04/08/2009 6:54:05 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 6 replies · 400+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 4/8/09 | Wayne Parry - ap
    LACEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. – The nation's oldest nuclear power plant has been granted a new license allowing it to operate for another 20 years. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission dismissed objections from anti-nuclear and environmental groups and issued the license Wednesday to the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Lacey Township, N.J., about 50 miles east of Philadelphia and 75 miles south of New York City. ... Oyster Creek's boiling-water reactor is considered obsolete by today's standards.
  • Federal Nuclear Regulators Respond to Concerns About Radiation Release at Oyster Creek

    07/20/2007 7:06:02 AM PDT · by Calpernia · 2 replies · 225+ views
    Millennium Radio New Jersey ^ | Friday, July 20, 2007 | Rosetta Key
    Reassurance about the public's safety is coming from the U-S Nuclear Regulatory Commission following word of the release of a small amount of radiation when the Oyster Creek Nuclear power plant in Ocean County was shut down this week. N-R-C spokesman Neil Sheehan says a Senior Health Physicist was on hand at the time the reactor was being vented releasing a weak radioisotopeTritium. He says "the Physicist looked at the plant's data on what was emitted and is very confident that this didn't represent any sort of threat to members of the public." Oyster Creek's parent company AmerGen, a subsidiary...
  • Aging Nuclear Power Plants May Affect Emissions Pact

    09/15/2005 4:07:12 AM PDT · by raybbr · 4 replies · 419+ views
    The New York Times ^ | September 14, 2005 | MATTHEW L. WALD
    .... Shutting down the two reactors would mean immediate, substantial increases in the emissions, because it would increase reliance on fossil fuel plants, probably tripling emissions in Vermont and doubling them in New Jersey.....Some environmentalists say the goals can be met even without the two nuclear plants, Vermont Yankee and Oyster Creek, and without other nuclear plants whose licenses will expire in the next few years....."We just have to bust the myth that we need to be using more energy," said Rob Sargent, senior energy policy analyst for the State Public Interest Research Groups, a nonprofit consumer organization.....The debate has...