Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station
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Oyster Creek Nuclear Plant in 1998, at the time it was owned & operated by GPU
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 Location of Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Ocean County, New Jersey
Location of Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Ocean County, New Jersey
Location of Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Ocean County, New Jersey
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| Country | United States |
| Location | Lacey Township, New Jersey |
| Coordinates | 39°48′53″N 74°12′18″W / 39.81472°N 74.20500°WCoordinates: 39°48′53″N 74°12′18″W / 39.81472°N 74.20500°W |
| Status | Operational |
| Construction began | 1965–1969 |
| Commission date | December 1, 1969 |
| Operator(s) | Exelon |
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| Reactor type | BWR-2 |
| Reactor supplier | General Electric |
| Power generation | |
| Nameplate capacity | 636 MWe |
| Average generation | 5,077 GWh |
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Website Oyster Creek |
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Oyster Creek nuclear power station is a single unit 636 MWe boiling water reactor power plant located on an 800-acre (320 ha) site adjacent to the Oyster Creek in the Forked River section of Lacey Township in Ocean County, New Jersey. The facility is currently owned and operated by Exelon Corporation and, along with unit 1 at Nine Mile Point Nuclear Generating Station, is the oldest operating commercial nuclear power plant in the United States. The plant first came online on December 1, 1969, and is licensed to operate until April 9, 2029, but Oyster Creek is scheduled to be permanently shut down by December 31, 2019. The plant gets its cooling water from Barnegat Bay, a brackish estuary that empties into the Atlantic Ocean through the Barnegat Inlet.
Oyster Creek is one of four licensed nuclear power reactors in New Jersey. The others are the two units at the Salem Nuclear Power Plant, and the one unit at Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Station. As of January 1, 2005, New Jersey ranked 9th among the 31 States with nuclear capacity for total MWe generated. In 2003, nuclear power generated over one half of the electricity in the state.
In 1999, GPU agreed to sell the Oyster Creek Nuclear Plant to AmerGen Energy for $10 million. AmerGen was later purchased by Exelon in 2003. Exelon fully integrated AmerGen's former assets, including Oyster Creek, in early 2009.
Oyster Creek is a single unit 636 MWe boiling water reactor power plant which first came online on December 1, 1969; it is the oldest operating nuclear power plant in the United States. Located 50 miles east of Philadelphia and 75 miles south of New York City, the plant gets its cooling water from Barnegat Bay, a brackish estuary that empties into the Atlantic Ocean through the Barnegat Inlet.
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