New Jersey's Oyster Creek Nuclear Facility Takes Unit 1 Offline

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Unit 1 at Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Station, located in Lacey Township, Ocean County, near the New Jersey shore, tripped offline Thursday night following an electrical disturbance. The station is owned by Exelon Corporation (NYSE:EXC) (Chicago, Illinois).

Plant officials are investigating the cause of the outage. They expect to return the unit to service by next Tuesday, barring any further delays. Unit 1, the only active unit at the plant, has a total capacity of 615 megawatts (MW).

Oyster Creek is the oldest operating commercial nuclear plant in the U.S. It is expected to permanently shut down by December 31, 2019. The plant will have a total of 50 years of operation by the end of retirement.

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