New Jersey's Oyster Creek Power Station Shuts Down Unit 1 for Repairs

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The 615-megawatt (MW) Nuclear Unit 1 at Oyster Creek Power Station, located in Forked River, New Jersey, was shut down Sunday, November 17, after the building that houses the reactor's secondary containment air lock door became inoperable. The station is owned by AmerGen Energy Company LLC (Kennett Square, Pennsylvania), a subsidiary of Exelon Corporation (NYSE:EXC).

Plant officials are investigating the cause of the event and have not given a specific time at which the unit will be returned online. The officials said that the outage will be short, and they anticipate the return of the unit in about seven days, if there are no delays.

The nuclear plant began operations in 1969. It has one generating unit and a total generating capacity of 615 MW when at full load.

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