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Superstorm – “Unusual Event” Declared At Nuclear Plant – N.J.
Monday, October 29, 2012 20:16
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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 10th 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. 
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s oldest nuclear power plant is on alert after waters from a colossal storm reached high levels.
Oyster Creek in Lacey Township, N.J., was already offline for regular maintenance before Sandy, a superstorm downgraded Monday night from a hurricane, slammed the East Coast.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says an “unusual event” was declared around 7 p.m. when water reached a high level. The situation was upgraded less than two hours later to an “alert,” the second-lowest in a four-tiered warning system.
Federal officials say all nuclear plants are still in safe condition. They say water levels near Oyster Creek, which is along the Atlantic Ocean, will likely recede within a few hours.
Oyster Creek went online in 1969 and provides 9 percent of New Jersey’s electricity. by Kristen A. Lee.
Impacts from Sandy forced Oyster Creek Generating Station to declare an “unusual event” at 7 p.m. today after the plant’s intake structure reached higher than normal water levels.
