SOUTH JERSEY NUCLEAR PLANT WARNING : OYSTER CREEK Nuclear Generating Station

Hopefully the reports are worst then the outcome, we pray that nothing goes significantly wrong with power stations and especially Nuclear Plants (Oyster Creek)

                                                                                                                                                                

Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen says that there are actually 26 nuclear plants in the path of the hurricane, and that the spent fuel pools in the plants don’t have backup pumps (summary via EneNews):

EneNews  reports that the hurricane is forecast to directly hit the Oyster Creek nuclear plant and that – while the plant is currently shut down for refueling – it still might very well have new, very hot fuel in the fuel pools:

Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station is located near New Jersey’s shoreline in an area forecast to take a direct hit from Hurricane Sandy: “The current ‘track center’ for the landfall path is central New Jersey pointing Sandy in a path that would hit Oyster Creek nuclear station.” -SimplyInfo

Oyster Creek Nuclear Station : Lacey Twnshp, NJ

With Oyster Creek shut down for refueling starting last week, hot fuel may have been placed in the fuel pool quite recently.

The unit at Oyster Creek is the same as Fukushima Daiichi No. 1: “Oyster Creek is one of the oldest US nuclear plants and is the same design as Fukushima unit 1.”-SimplyInfo

Remember, Fukushima reactor number 4 was shut down for maintenance when the Japanese earthquake hit.  And yet the fuel pools at reactor 4 are in such precarious condition that they pose a giantthreat to humanity.

Hurricane Sandy is not very intense in terms of wind speed.  But the storm is so large, that storm surges could be 11 feet high.

Source : http://www.infowars.com/hurricane-sandy-may-score-a-direct-hit-on-spent-fuel-pools-at-nuclear-plant/#

Oyster Creek nuclear power station is a single unit 636 MWe boiling water reactor power plant located on an 800 acre (3.2 km²) site adjacent to the Oyster Creek in the Forked River section of Lacey Township in Ocean County, New Jersey. The facility is currently owned and operated by Exelon Corporation and is the oldest operating nuclear power plant in the United States. The plant first came online on December 1, 1969, and is licensed to operate until April 9, 2029. The plant gets its cooling water from Barnegat Bay, a brackish estuary that empties into the Atlantic Ocean through the Barnegat Inlet.

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster_Creek_Nuclear_Generating_Station