Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Six nuclear sites included in $2 million study to be performed by National Academy of Sciences
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
The Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station will be part of a pilot study designed to gauge cancer risks around nuclear power plants. Oyster Creek is one of six plants to be studied by the National Academy of Sciences, in concert with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, according to Neil Sheehan, a public affairs officer at the NRC. The results of the study will help determine if the review should be extended to the remaining U.S. nuclear sites. The effort will involve two studies — an examination of cancer types near facilities and a case-control study of cancers in children born near the facilities, Sheehan said. The effort is expected to start within the next three months, will probably last into 2014 and will cost $2 million. The …
Friday, September 14, 2012
State and local officials will be hosting a Public Information Session on Sept. 26 at Lacey Middle School
State and local officials will be hosting a meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 26 on the regional impact of the closure of Oyster Creek Generating Station and options moving forward. Congressman Jon Runyan along with local officials from Lacey, Ocean and Barnegat Townships will be holding the meeting at 7 p.m. at the Lacey Middle School, Committeeman David Most announced at the Lacey Township meeting Thursday night. “The purpose of the meeting is to discuss potential options and opportunities moving forward,” Runyan said in a letter, encouraging local and state governments, businesses and business organizations and members of the public to attend. The closure of Oyster Creek, America’s oldest operating nuclear power plant, was announced in …
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Patch gets the answers to your questions.
Residents of Ocean County learned about spent fuel, radiation, public safety and more at Oyster Creek Generating Station’s annual Community Information Night on Wednesday evening. “This is always a good event,” plant spokesperson Suzanne D’Ambrosio said. “We tried this year to bring more of the community into it…There’s really such a solid commitment here to the community. Community Information Night is a small way to give back.” Approximately 40 Exelon representatives and technical experts utilized interactive displays and activities to provide information on nuclear energy topics including plant operations, emergency planning, security, safety, used fuel storage and environmental protection. “Every table has the people who work at the …
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Fukushima is a "low probability event," NRC says
Oyster Creek critics recently expressed a sense of urgency at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s second public meeting on the oversight of the Forked River based nuclear plant. Just more than a year after the Fukushima disaster, citizens continue to show concern over the NRC’s lack of immediate action to improve the safety of nuclear plants in the United States. In March the federal agency issued its first orders following the nuclear disaster but plant’s have until 2016 to comply. “Why is this urgency that we’re now all supposed to be feeling after Fukushima is not reflected in the work of the NRC,” said New Jersey Environmental Federation’s (NJEF) Peggi Sturmfels, who considers the post Fukushima requirements “patchwork.” “We need to …
Monday, April 16, 2012
Barnegat Patch readers are pretty evently split in their opinion.
Following last week's story about the possibility of Oyster Creek Generating Station being included in a pilot study of cancer risks in populations in close proximity to nuclear facilities, we asked for your thoughts. Do you feel radiation may have adverse effects on local residents? Or do think the worries are unwarranted? A few voters indicated they would wait for the study to come out before forming or finalizing their opinion, but otherwise, the poll results were pretty evenly split between readers saying "no, they aren't worried," and those saying "yes they are," with "not worried" results trumping "worried" by a single vote. The National Research Council will conduct the two-phase study, which was requested and will be funded by the …
Thursday, March 29, 2012
NRC says Oyster Creek operated safely in 2011 with only eight "green" findings
Barnegat resident Marianne Clemente came into last night’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) open house on the annual assessment of Oyster Creek Generating Station outraged. “This is not a public hearing,” she said. The open house, which consisted of several tables and NRC representatives, was to give citizens the opportunity to discuss plant-related topics, including its 2011 safety report. “They have to start listening to us,” said Clemente, who attended the open house as an independent concerned citizen. “This isn’t clean energy. They’re talking about mothballing (the plant) when they should be decommissioning it. There’s no reason for it to be open right now.” Despite the NRC boasting that Oyster Creek operated safely during 2011, …
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Local group supporting petition that calls for a 50-mile emergency evacuation zone surrounding U.S. nuclear reactors, including Oyster Creek Generating Station
Jersey Shore advocates joined thirty-seven clean energy groups in submitting a formal petition for rule making to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) seeking the adoption of new regulations to expand emergency evacuation zones and improve emergency response planning around U.S. nuclear reactors, including Oyster Creek Generating Station. “Pretending that radiation from an accident at Oyster Creek would not go beyond the 10-mile evacuation zone is a fantasy placing millions of people at risk,” said Janet Tauro, a member of Grandmothers, Mothers and More for Energy Safety (GRAMMES), a grassroots organization that fought the relicensing of Oyster Creek and signed the petition. The petition calls for: Currently utilities do not have to …
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
The Forked River nuclear plant was exempted from an off-site FEMA emergency exercise due to Hurricane Irene
Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station passed its biennial emergency exercise test conducted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. “Emergency preparedness in the nuclear industry is something that we absolutely have to take seriously and have to put much effort into,” said Suzanne D’Ambrosio, spokesperson for Oyster Creek owner Exelon. The test entails a simulated series of emergency events in a concentrated time frame, she said. “Our focus is on how the company performs on the emergency response front,” Neil Sheehan of the NRC said. Among the areas assessed are the company's classification of, and response to, abnormal plant conditions; the way in which it communicates information about such conditions to off-site authorities, including …
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
The operation of Oyster Creek Generating Station and other power plants throughout the country will be discussed
A public hearing regarding all U.S. nuclear plants with the same type of reactor as the plant in Fukushima, Japan – such as the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Lacey Township – will be heard via webcast or telephone on Friday, Oct. 7 from 10 a.m. to noon. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission-run hearing will give the pubic the opportunity to comment on requested emergency enforcement actions to suspend operations at Fukushima-style nuclear reactors. The Fukushima Daiichi plant suffered major damage in the March earthquake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan, leading to a radiation leak. The public hearing was prompted by a petition of more than 6,000, including the local group Grandmothers, Mothers and More for Energy …
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Inclusion of Lacey Township in the state's Energy Master Plan was the first step in a long process, Runyan said
Congressman Jon Runyan and Lacey Committeeman David Most continue to work toward replacing Oyster Creek in 2019. “The first thing I heard when they were talking about taking [the plant] offline was the impact to the community. Whether it’s jobs, whether it’s taxes, all that kind of stuff has a major impact to the community,” Runyan said. Nearly 700 jobs will be lost when Oyster Creek closes; the township currently receives more than $11 million in energy tax receipts from the state, which is a major source of revenue, Lacey Mayor Gary Quinn said. Runyan has visited Oyster Creek several times, including with Lacey Deputy Mayor Mark Dykoff when he was first campaigning, he said. “You always wonder 'well what’s going to happen when something …
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