Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station

The Murphy administration has put together a safety advisory panel at the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Lacey Township to assist with the evaluation of decommissioning operations at the power plant.

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.

A public meeting about shutting down the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station after almost 50 years of operation is scheduled for Tuesday evening in Lacey.

Your chance to learn more about the Oyster Creek Generating Station and its history in Ocean County is upon us.

An emergency situation was declared Saturday morning at New Jersey's oldest nuclear power plant.

With cyberattacks becoming commonplace in the private and public sectors, there is now an elevated concern about hackers targeting nuclear power plants in the Garden State.

As the turbine in the Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plant in Lacey resumes sending electricity to the PJM grid, inspectors of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) are reviewing the circumstances that led to Monday's forced shutdown.

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.

One more refueling is all that remains at the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Lacey Township, before decommissioning is scheduled to begin in 2019.