Exelon

It's going to get noisy in central Ocean County on Tuesday as Exelon Generation will conduct its final semi-annual, full-volume test of the emergency warning sirens surrounding Oyster Creek Generating Station on June 4.

A heads up for the Central part of Ocean County coming up on Tuesday as the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station will be conducting their semi-annual full-volume test of the emergency warning sirens.

The decommissioning of the Nuclear Power Plant is going to take some time, in fact some of it will take decades to be completed.

To date the Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plant in Lacey Township has completed 'milestones' one through seven of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's cyber-security requirements, number eight is given an extension ahead of the December 31 deadline.

Exelon seeks to downsize its emergency procedures once the Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plant no longer produces electricity.

Perhaps no other noise in Ocean County can be ominous and reassuring at the same time - ominous because of its purpose, reassuring because of its volume.

The inner workings of the Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plant in Lacey Township, for most of us, will always be an abstraction. However, once each year, the technicians, engineers, inspectors, and operators meet with neighbors and interested passers-by for some atomic-style inside-baseball chat. That opportunity returns June 5 in Forked River.

The nation's oldest operating commercial nuclear generating station draws enhanced scrutiny by federal regulators. A defect discovered in December 2016 at the Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plant in Lacey Township led to a finalized determination of a low-to-moderate safety risk this week.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is holding a conference with Exelon on Thursday to discuss faulty pressure relief valve at the Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plant in Lacey Township.

Atlantic City Electric customers can expect a limited amount of rate relief, and about 60 skilled union workers can expect to join the labor force, through the merger of Exelon with Pepco Holdings, according to a joint statement released by Governor Chris Christie's office and the heads of all three companies.