Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station

It's America's oldest active commercial nuclear generating station. It's also one of Ocean County's largest employers. The 600 workers at Oyster Creek in Lacey Township generate revenue that supports shore life, in addition to generating electricity. This Monday, you can meet them and get a glimpse inside their world.

An electrical disturbance on the non-nuclear side of the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Lacey Township forced an automatic shut-down Thursday night, according to plant officials.

Equipment malfunctions during 2014 at the Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plant in Lacey Township result in more intensive scrutiny by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

The Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Lacey Township had four outages, or scrams,  during 2014, but only one of them was planned. A federal inspection in December found a July shutdown, which was among the three unplanned outages, has led to a downgrade in the facility's Performance Indicator from Green to White, or "very low safety significance" to "low to moderate,"

Distribution of a new batch of Potassium Iodide (KI) tablets begins next week to those who live and work within a ten mile radius of the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station. Ocean County Health Department Spokeswoman Leslie Terjesen says this new batch replaces the round of pills they distributed five years ago and are set to expire this year...

About halfway to revving the reactor back to full operation after valve repairs, operators at the Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plant in Lacey Township shut it down manually to address another matter.

The parent company of the nation's oldest operating nuclear power plant is trying to get out of making additional post-Fukushima disaster prevention upgrades.

The public gets a chance to bring up safety concerns about the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Manahawkin this week. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will be hosting its annual review of the facility's safety performance.

First responders and Oyster Creek were put through the paces last week as part of a full scale Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Radiological Emergency Preparedness Drill. The drill is based on an unlikely scenario of things going from bad to absolute worst at the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Lacey Township...

Protective measures and assessments continue at U.S. nuclear power plants following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant meltdown in Japan.