On March 31, the Third Circuit rejected the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) challenge to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) denial of its request to intervene in the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station (Oyster Creek) relicensing proceedings. NJ Department of Environmental Protection v. US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 2009 WL 819482 (3rd Cir. 2009). NRC lost no time following the appeals court’s ruling by renewing Oyster Creek’s operating license on April 8, for an additional 20 years.
Oyster Creek, located in Lacey and Ocean Townships, Ocean County, was the nation’s first commercial nuclear power plant. The 630-plus megawatt facility was originally licensed in 1969 and generates sufficient power for 600,000 typical homes. DEP’s opposition appears somewhat incongruous in light of the state’s cautious willingness and need to consider additional nuclear generating capacity as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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