New Jersey's Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plant Closing in September

[jpak]

https://www.power-eng.com/articles/2018/07/new-jersey-s-oyster-creek-nuclear-power-plant-closing-in-september.html


America's oldest nuclear power plant will shut down on Sept. 17, but the Oyster Creek plant near the New Jersey shore will stay right where it is for the next 60 years.

Officials with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission held a briefing Monday on shutdown plans for Oyster Creek, which opened in 1969. They said Chicago-based Exelon plans to remove the remaining nuclear fuel rods from storage pools and put them into dry storage within 5½ years of the shutdown date.

All told, it will cost $1.4 billion to shut down the plant; Exelon currently has $982.1 million of that set aside in a decommissioning account, NRC officials said.

Although the plant will stop producing electricity just before summer ends, radioactive material could be on site until the late 2070s, if not later.

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The sea life of Barnegat Bay will soon be safe.

[RGinNJ]

1. Yea, I always questioned the wisdom of the people who fished on the Rte 9 bridge.

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[NickB79]

2. The sea life of that bay couldn't care less about the closure

It's biggest threats are human runoff from farms, pollution from garbage washing into the sea, and climate change heating and acidifying the water.

The sea life is still royally screwed, with or without the reactors running.

[jpak]

3. Does Oyster Creek have colling towers?

Where does it get its cooling water?

Do tell.