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Oyster Creek nuclear plant aging and problematic

Nation’s oldest nuclear plant showing its age
Google News By WAYNE PARRY (AP)  10 Sept 09 LACEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. — As the nation’s oldest nuclear power plant shows its age, some call it Oyster Creak.The latest problems — a series of radioactive water leaks — were found just days after the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station got a new 20-year license that environmentalists bitterly fought for four years.Those problems followed corrosion that left the reactor’s crucial safety liner rusted and thinned.The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Agency and the plant’s owners, Chicago-based Exelon Corp., insist the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station can operate safely until it is 60 years old.Not everyone is convinced…………………..

In April, the NRC granted Oyster Creek a new 20-year license after it dismissed objections from anti-nuclear and environmental groups.The opposition centered on corrosion to the plant’s drywell shield, a metal enclosure that keeps superheated radioactive steam within a containment building around the reactor

The Associated Press: Nation’s oldest nuclear plant showing its age

September 10, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, business and costs, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, radioactive