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Oyster Creek nuclear power station is a single unit 636 MWe boiling water reactor power plant located on an 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.〔http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=228&t=21〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=NRC - Licensed Facilities by Region or State - New Jersey )〕 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.〔 〕 It is the oldest operating nuclear power plant in the United States.〔()〕 In 1999, GPU agreed to sell the Oyster Creek Nuclear Plant to AmerGen Energy for $10 million.〔(NYT Metro Business; GPU to Sell Oyster Creek )〕 AmerGen was later purchased by Exelon in 2003.〔(EXELON TO MATCH FPL'S $276.5-MILLION OFFER FOR AMERGEN PURCHASE FROM BRITISH ENERGY )〕 Exelon fully integrated AmerGen's former assets, including Oyster Creek, in early 2009.〔(Exelon Generation Formally Integrates AmerGen Assets Into Exelon Nuclear )〕 == Design == 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,〔Harvey Wasserman, ''CounterPunch, April 10, 2009, (Another $50 Billion for Rust Bucket Nukes? )〕 the plant gets its cooling water from Barnegat Bay, a brackish estuary that empties into the Atlantic Ocean through the Barnegat Inlet. Oyster Creek was originally licensed for 40 years, but in April 2009 its license was extended for another 20 years by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. "Based on the Atomic Energy Act, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issues licenses for commercial power reactors to operate for up to 40 years and allows these licenses to be renewed for up to another 20 years. This original 40-year term for reactor licenses was based on economic and antitrust considerations -- not on limitations of nuclear technology. Due to this selected period, however, some structures and components may have been engineered on the basis of an expected 40-year service life. "〔(NRC:Backgrounder on Reactor License Renewal )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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