Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station

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The Oyster Creek nuclear power plant is a U.S. nuclear power plant near the Lacey Township, New Jersey. It is the first large-scale nuclear power plant in the United States and the oldest, which is still in operation. Companies it from AmerGen Energy LLC, a subsidiary of Exelon group is.

The reactor gets its cooling water from the Barnegat Bay, a lagoon of Atlantic Ocean.

History

The nuclear power plant has a boiling water reactor from General Electric with a net electrical output of 619 MW (gross 652 MW). On December 15, 1964, started the construction. The first network synchronization took place on September 23, 1969 December 1, 1969, the reactor took up the commercial operation.

Term

The approval granted in 1991 license was valid until April 2009. Exelon requested in 2005 to extend maturities until 2029th against this request is turned citizen initiatives with appeals and petitions.

In early April 2009, the approval was extended until 2029. In December 2010, the operator entered into an agreement with the State of New Jersey. This dispensed with the requirement for the construction of expensive cooling towers. These were required to reduce the number of dead creatures that die every summer from the effects of warm cooling water. Exelon said to a closure of the NPP in 2019 in return.

The reactor is technically comparable to the reactor block Fukushima Daiichi 1, that exploded the first during the Fukushima nuclear disaster. In March 2011, a U.S. federal court dismissed therefore to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC ) to review the approval of the power plant. 5 April 2011 it was announced that the NRC sees no new action for the power plant.

Incidents

On 12 July 2009, an incident occurred. Due to a lightning strike to an external current distribution of offsite power occurred. The internal diesel emergency generators were running. However, one of them had start-up problems. It therefore had to be taken in addition to and as an almost last redundancy temporarily a so-called emergency condenser in operation. The emergency case took 1.5 hours, it was this declared an internal emergency situation. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission NRC led then by a special investigation.

On 9 April 2009 radioactively contaminated water leaked (especially tritium ) from the nuclear power plant. Early May 2010 it was announced that the contaminated water has reached an aquifer, from which depends a lot of the drinking water supply in the region.

On October 29, 2012 at 19:00 clock an "Unusual Event " was declared ( an unusual occurrence ) due to the hurricane Sandy and the associated flooding. Two hours later, the event level was raised to " alert " (alarm state). This is the second stage in the four-stage alarm system.

Data of the reactor block

The Oyster Creek nuclear power plant has a power block:

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