Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Oyster Creek owner says plant acted 'in good faith'
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accused Exelon Corporation - the owner and operator of Oyster Creek Generating Station - of misreporting the status of funds utilized to prepare nuclear power plants for shut down. The investigation, initiated on Sept. 10, 2010, found that a senior Exelon executive and an Exelon manager appeared to have “deliberately” provided incomplete and inaccurate information in decommissioning funding status reports. The decommissioning fund is used to return a site back to pre-facility conditions once the power plant is shut down. “Our regulations require that the funds continue to grow at a rate to ensure there will eventually be sufficient monies to cover the costs of the radiological decommissioning of each …
Sunday, January 6, 2013
The meeting, which was postponed due to Hurricane Sandy, will be held on Monday, Jan. 7 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Ocean County Administration Building
The state Department of Environmental Protection has rescheduled its Oyster Creek Safety Advisory Panel public meeting - which was canceled due to Hurricane Sandy - for Monday, Jan. 7 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Ocean County Administration Building. The focus of the meeting will be on the safe operation and closure of Oyster Creek Generating Station. Members of the Oyster Creek Safety Advisory Panel will be available to discuss plant-related matters. The panel was created to assist the DEP with the evaluation of the safe operation and cessation of operations at Oyster Creek, a news release said. The panel consists of DEP Commissioner Bob Martin, Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness Director Edward Dickson and independent consultant…
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
A petition has been filed to the NRC to address Hurricane Sandy-related concerns prior to permitting Oyster Creek Generating Station to return to service
Anti-nuclear advocates have filed emergency legal proceedings with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and appealed to Gov. Chris Christie to intervene and ensure that "major flaws" at Oyster Creek Generating Station are addressed prior to the nuclear plant returns online. “We’ve just been through a heartwrenching catastrophe with Sandy,” said Janet Tauro, chair of the Board of Directors of the NJ Environmental Federation (NJEF) and founder of Grandmothers, Mothers and More for Energy Safety (GRAMMES). “So many have lost their homes, been displaced, been made physically ill by the aftermath of the devastation, that to add the greater risk of a Fukushima radioactive event to the mix would simply be inhuman.” The petition seeks to keep …
Monday, October 8, 2012
The Monday, Nov. 5 meeting will begin at 6 p.m. at the Ocean County Administrative Building in Toms River
A public meeting will be held on the safe operation and closure of Oyster Creek Generating Station on Nov. 5 in Toms River. The meeting, which was announced by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, will run from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Ocean County Administration Building. Members of the Oyster Creek Safety Advisory Panel will be available to discuss plant-related matters. The panel was created to assist the DEP with the evaluation of the safe operation and cessation of operations at Oyster Creek, a news release said. The panel consists of DEP Commissioner Bob Martin, Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness Director Edward Dickson and independent consultant Adam Cohen. The closure of Oyster Creek was announced in …
Friday, September 14, 2012
State and local officials will be hosting a Public Information Session on Sept. 26 at Lacey Middle School
State and local officials will be hosting a meeting on Sept. 26 on the regional impact of the closure of Oyster Creek Generating Station and options moving forward. Congressman Jon Runyan along with local officials from Lacey, Ocean and Barnegat Townships will be holding the meeting at 7 p.m. at the Lacey Middle School, Committeeman David Most said at the Lacey Township meeting Thursday night. “The purpose of the meeting is to discuss potential options and opportunities moving forward,” Runyan said in a letter, encouraging local and state governments, businesses and business organizations and members of the public to attend. The closure of Oyster Creek, America’s oldest operating nuclear power plant, was announced in December 2009 after …
Friday, September 7, 2012
Decision comes nearly three months after a federal appeals court threw out a rule that would allow nuclear plants to store radioactive waste on site for up to 60 years after a plant closes
The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission will re-evaluate its plan for spent fuel storage during a two-year environmental study. The decision comes after a federal appeals court threw out a rule that would allow nuclear plants, including Oyster Creek Generating Station, to store radioactive waste on site for up to 60 years after a plant shuts down. “Resolving this issue successfully is a Commission priority,” NRC Chairman Allison Macfarlane said in a news release. “Waste confidence plays a core role in many major licensing actions, such as new reactors and license renewals.” The NRC directed the agency’s staff today to develop an environmental impact statement (EIS) and a revised waste confidence decision and rule on the temporary storage…
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Oyster Creek Generating returned to full power at 2:26 p.m. after five days offline
Oyster Creek Generating Station has returned to full power following at outage that began Monday morning when an electrical disruption throughout the region caused the reactor to automatically shut down, a news release said. Electrical service to approximately 22,000 Ocean County residents and Oyster Creek Generating Station was temporarily disrupted on Monday, causing the plant to take its reactor offline. An Unusual Event - which is the lowest of four Nuclear Regulatory Commission emergency classifications - was declared for roughly two hours and terminated after Jersey Central Power & Light crews corrected the issue. The loss of power appears to have resulted from an electrical fault with the 230-kilovolt line that provides power to the…
Saturday, June 16, 2012
Exercise could lead to simplified forms, officials say
A simulated exercise of an emergency at the Oyster Creek Generating Station in Lacey has been deemed a success, officials said Friday. The exercise, held Tuesday night, gauged the response of municipal, county and state agencies to a limited-scale nuclear plume, said Rebecca Thomson, Technological Hazards Branch Chief with the Federal Emergency Management Agency. "You have some wonderful neighbors who do some great work," Thomson said, complimenting local volunteer emergency responders Friday at a lightly-attended meeting where the preliminary results of the drill were reported. In all, 17 municipalities within the 10 mile emergency zone around the plant were involved in the drill, alongside county and state agencies, as well as FEMA, …
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
The annual siren test was conducted twice on Tuesday, June 5
This year as well as last, Patch received complaints from residents who failed to hear Oyster Creek's siren test. At 10 a.m., a three-minute full volume siren was activated within Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station’s emergency planning zone. The siren went off again for a few seconds at 2 p.m. The 42-siren system goes off within a 10-mile radius of the nuclear plant as a part of Exelon’s comprehensive emergency preparedness program. Exelon Corporation issues the annual test, which is not a signal to evacuate, in cooperation with Ocean County and the New Jersey Office of Emergency Management. "We had 100 percent success. All 42 sirens sounded," Oyster Creek spokesperson Suzanne D'Ambrosio said. "Every siren works." D'Ambrosio added …
Friday, April 6, 2012
First phase of study will determine scientific approaches, second phase would carry it out
The Oyster Creek Generating Station may be included in a pilot study of cancer risks in populations in close proximity to nuclear facilities. The National Research Council will conduct the two-phase study, which was requested and will be funded by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), on the 104 nuclear reactors and 13 fuel cycle facilities licensed throughout the country. Phase one will identify scientific approaches for the study while phase two, if the NRC chooses to proceed, would actually carry it out. The study is a follow-up to one that was done in 1990 by the National Cancer Institute that had limitations and is now outdated, said John Burris, chair of the committee that wrote the report and president of Burroughs Wellcome …
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1:31 pm on Wednesday, February 6, 2013
This just must be real because up until now the NRC has been the lead cheerleader for that obsolete plant. more ›