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1. Christie spin
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Governor Christie had a chance to shut down Oyster Creek. Instead he cut a political deal to allow the plant to operate until 2019 without cooling towers. Christei revoked a DEP 2010 decision to mandate ...

2. Japan using Hail Mary to prevent nuclear disaster
(World/International)

... boric acid has to continually circulate in the pool to keep the bundles cool. When the power was lost at the site, the cooling system for the pools stopped. And the batteries used to try and restore cooling ...

3. American Red Cross mobilizes in wake of Japan disaster
(World/International)

... the 100 million yen donation to the International Red Cross. The Associated Press reports in northeastern Japan, the area around a nuclear power plant was evacuated after the reactor's cooling system ...

4. NFL labor talks: Understanding the negotiations
(Sports/Professional)

... a quarter of the NFLPA crossed the picket lines, breaking down union solidarity. On August 11, Garvey sent his players back to work after a federal mediator suggested a 14-day cooling off period, instead ...

5. With backing of commercial fishermen, company plans wind farm off Atlantic City coast
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... of Environmental Protection decided to allow Exelon Corp.'s Oyster Creek nuclear plant to close in 2019 rather than add cooling towers or contribute to a new initiative to clean up Barnegat Bay. But ...

6. Errors
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The author makes two mistakes regarding a loss of water from a cooling pond. First, spent fuel cannot sustain a fission chain reaction- that's why it has to be removed from the reactor. The heat produced ...

7. Assembly panel approves 5-bill package to encourage design of green energy buildings
(N.J./State)

... too quickly, not only improve storm water management but also provide cost saving opportunities, such as more efficient energy usage for heating and cooling. The first bill (A-3678) would provide projects ...

8. Southeast Asia and Pacific emerging market stocks: Time to bail out?
(Money/Economy)

... rates by two percentage points. South Korea and Thailand also have recently jacked up interest rates to slow growth. While these economy cooling steps may enhance economic health in the long run, in ...

9. Gov. Christie attacked New Jersey’s environment as much as NJEA
(Opinion/Commentary)

... Bay and deal with the cooling towers issue at Oyster Creek, he has done neither. He has taken the side of the polluter over the Bay with his decision to side with Exelon. The Governor's proposal will add ...

10. Roger Witherspoon
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... that your reporting is unbiased. The cooling towers that Vermont Yankee are sized perfectly for a plant a bit more than half the size of one of the Indian Point units. Entergy is not claiming that ...

11. Kauffman et al
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... does not eliminate decisions on closed cycle cooling -- if it is used. In this case, NY DEC used it and concluded the cost was reasonable. If you disagree, argue with them. Ditto your assertions that once ...

12. Mr. Witherspoon's cooling system piece
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... analysis, eliminating the need for a one-size-fits-all cooling tower mandate. He also fails to mention a one-size-fits-all mandate would be a very expensive proposition. The Electric Power Research ...

13. Gov. Christie’s proposal to save Barnegat Bay is more PR than public policy
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... if it means requiring cooling towers, he has done neither. The deal that was agreed to between Governor Christie and Exelon will allow for the operation of Oyster Creek nuclear power plant for the next ...

14. Roger Witherspoon
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... is not located in Barnegat Bay. That would be Oyster Creek. -The article speaks of the differences between "cooling towers" and "mechanical draft". THEY ARE BOTH COOLING TOWERS. The natural draft ...

15. Oyster Creek ACO killed cooling tower BAT in NJ
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My apologies for multiple posts, but I can't seem to get this to post. The Oyster Creek ACO by Governor Christie's DEP reversed the prior cooling tower BAT determination in the January 2010 draft NJPDES ...

16. Merritt Clifton
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... a cooling tower. It just uses fans instead of natural draft. After all is said and done one costs more to build (natural), but the other (mechanical) costs more to operate (those fans use electricity). ...

17. Oyster Creek decision shows focus is on cooling systems
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... retrofit their plants with modern cooling systems which won't kill billions of fish annually or cease operating. Environmental analysts in the two states have found that these facilities kill more than ...

18. Oyster Creek scheduled to close in nine years
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...  The Chicago-based utility already had threatened to shut the plant off Barnegat Bay if New Jersey persisted in forcing it to build cooling towers. The company contended the cost of towers would make ...

19. Gov. Christie unveils plan to clean up Barnegat Bay
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... action a ten point plan to clean up the bay. He said the closing of Oyster Creek would resolve the need for a massive cooling system at the Forked River plant. "Barnegat Bay is one of my top environmental ...

20. Groundwater tests at Oyster Creek show decreasing levels of radioactive tritium
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... pumping groundwater from the Cohansey Aquifer, measuring the concentration of tritium in the water, discharging it into the Oyster Creek cooling-water intake structure, allowing the tritium to mix with ...