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1. Gov. Christie vetoes Barnegat Bay stormwater, pollution management legislation
(N.J./State)

... unprecedented actions to protect the Bay environment – first with a 10-point action plan, including the orderly closure of the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant, followed by his signing of three significant ...

2. Oyster Creek
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I agree ...the plant has very large thermal dilution pumps (German made) designed to pass a bluefish without damage. This keeps inlet and outlet temp at the same temps.All the flow thru the discharge canal ...

3. Oyster Creek
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Instead of crying about Exelon running the plant into the ground, why not give them a financial incentive to invest in the plant thoroughly by extending the plants life through 2029? The good people of ...

4. Three-member N.J. panel to oversee closure of Oyster Creek nuclear power plant
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Nation's oldest reactor must shutdown by 2019 State Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin Friday signed an order creating an Oyster Creek Safety Advisory Panel to provide oversight of the ...

5. Where to celebrate Mother’s Day at the Jersey Shore
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... Atlantic Halibut with roasted heirloom beets, thumbalina carrots and sorrel sauce; Roasted Amish Chicken with spring onion späetzle, bacon and oyster mushrooms; or Grilled Filet Mignon with whipped potatoes, ...

6. 2011 Tribeca Film Festival roundup
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... back to Queens when he's let go after twenty-odd years by the metal band Blue Oyster Cult. Played by Ron Eldard, whose face is a map of regret and disappointment, Jimmie returns home because he has no ...

7. Japan’s nuclear radiation found in New Jersey water
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... testify at a briefing on nuclear power plant safety and emergency preparedness at the Statehouse on Wednesday. Two of the state’s reactors, Oyster Creek in Ocean County and Hope Creek in Salem County, ...

8. Jersey Shore Restaurant Week Kicks Off April 1
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... Fromagerie and Terry Eleftheriou, Shipwreck Grill. Wednesday, April 6 at Rooney’s Oceanfront Restaurant, Long Branch – “Shellfish and Chardonnay,” an all-day event for feasting on shrimp, oysters and ...

9. Get the Facts Right!
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The Salem reactors are a PWR design from Westinghouse not the same design as the Fukushima reactors. The Hope Creek reactor is a BWR but a much newer design than the Fukushima reactors. The Oyster Creek ...

10. NRC Safety Inspections
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... folks. 2) There are four operating reactors in New Jersey, not six. Oyster Creek has one BWR, Hope Creek has one BWR, and two PWR units at Salem. 3) Exelon has already announced that they are going to ...

11. Feds rate New Jersey’s nuclear fleet ‘safe’
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... Creek, Oyster Creek, and twin Salem Generating Station plants and the two Indian Point plants on the Hudson River opposite West Point “met all cornerstone objectives.” Those assessments put all of the ...

12. Christie forms task force to examine safety of New Jersey's four nuclear power plants
(N.J./State)

... emergency response measures with the management. New Jersey’s nuclear reactors are Oyster Creek in Lacey, Ocean County; Hope Creek in Lower Alloways Creek, Salem County, and the Salem Units One and Two ...

13. PSEG Nuclear monitors Fukashima reactor crisis while South Jersey nuke plan proceeds
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... reached a deal with the Exelon Corp. which had threatened to close its Oyster Creek nuclear plant in 2019 if required to add a cooling tower. Under the deal, the cooling tower was dropped but the company ...

14. Alan Steinberg to discuss nuclear power on ‘New Jersey Now’
(N.J./State)

... of former President George W. Bush, where he worked extensively with nuclear energy, including the Indian Point, New York facility, the Oyster Creek, New Jersey plant, and the former West Valley, New York ...

15. Culinary cues from Canada
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... oysters and sweetest lobsters in winter. As a blizzard raged outside the Niagara Food and Wine Institute at Niagara College last February 2, Stewart hosted a “virtual tasting” webcast for food writers ...

16. 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 ...

17. N.J. to join state challenge of federal rule that extends time for nuclear waste storage
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... across the nation. That is not acceptable.'' New Jersey has four operating nuclear reactors that are affected by NRC rules: Oyster Creek in Lacey Township, Hope Creek in Lower Alloways Creek, and two ...

18. Ash Wednesday: Hear God's voice over the sound of your snacking
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... tell you this was a sacrifice, but it turns into shrimp fest at my house. My husband loves seafood, and this is just the excuse he needs to blow the grocery budget on oysters or sushi. The pleasure ...

19. 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 ...

20. New Jersey environmentalists appeal decision on Delaware River deepening
(N.J./State)

... the water they drink, the fish and oysters they eat, and the lands that protect us from the ravages of storm and climate change," van Rossum added. The project is a 1992 proposal by the US Army Corps ...