Tuesday
Sep182018
Links to news coverage of the Oyster Creek, NJ permanent shutdown
The oldest operating atomic reactor in the U.S., Oyster Creek, NJ, has finally, at long last, shut down, for good, after 49 years. The good news? No more risk of reactor meltdown at this Fukushima Daiichi twin design (a GE BWR Mark I); no more radioactive watse generation; and no more cooking of Barnegat Bay (once every six weeks, during operations, the entire water volume of the Bay was passed through Oyster Creek's cooling system, inflicting a half-century of untold ecological harm).
See links to news coverage, below:
- AP News - Long held as oldest in US, New Jersey nuclear plant closes - Wayne Parry;
- World Nuclear News - Oyster Creek retires after 49 years;
- Lacey Patch, NJ - The End Of A Nuclear Era: Oyster Creek's Last Day Is Monday - Patricia A. Miller;
- Asbury Park Press - Oyster Creek: A look back at historic nuclear plant before it's shutdown forever - Amanda Oglesby;
- OilVoice - America's Oldest Operating Nuclear Power Plant to Retire on Monday;
- Surf City SandPaper, NJ - Oyster Creek's Final Outage Set, Interim Spent Nuke Fuel Repositories Still Under Review - Gina G. Scala;
- Asbury Park Press - Inadequate concern for health impact of Oyster Creek: Mangano - Joseph J. Mangano