Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Station

Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Station

Infobox NPP
Status=O



caption=Hope Creek NPP, image courtesy of the NRC
Utility=PSEG
Location=Lower Alloways Creek
Supplier=General Electric
Type=BWR-4
Capacity= 1,059
generation=8,104
for_year=2007
av_annual_gen =7,528
built=1974-1986
Start= December 20, 1986
Expires=April 11, 2026
architect=Bechtel
Cconstruction=Bechtel
Generators=1 GE 25kV
Region=1
website= [http://www.pseg.com/companies/nuclear/hopecreek.jsp Hope Creek]

Hope Creek Nuclear is a thermal nuclear power plant located in Lower Alloways Creek Township, New Jersey on the same site as the two unit Salem Nuclear Power Plant. The plant is owned and operated by PSEG Nuclear LLC. It has one unit (one reactor), a boiling water reactor (BWR) manufactured by Bechtel. [ [http://www.pseg.com/companies/nuclear/hopecreek.jsp The Hope Creek Generating Station] , PSE&G. Accessed September 15, 2007.] It has a generating capacity of 1,120 MWe. The plant came online on July 25, 1986, and its license to operate expires April 11, 2026 (although an extension is probable).

Hope Creek is one of four nuclear power units in New Jersey. The others are the two at the Salem Nuclear Power Plant, and the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station. As of January 1, 2005, New Jersey ranked 10th among the 31 States with nuclear capacity for total MWe generated. In 2003, nuclear electricity generated over one half of the electricity in the State. [cite web |url=http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/nuclear/page/at_a_glance/states/statesnj.html |title=New Jersey Nuclear Industry |accessdate=2008-08-23 |quote=The leading source of electricity in 2004 in the State was nuclear power. In 2004, National nuclear generation reached record levels. In New Jersey, the nuclear industry's share of electric output dropped by 4 percent as coal and gas modestly increased their share. |publisher=Department of Energy ]

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* [http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/nuclear/page/at_a_glance/reactors/hope_creek.html DoE page]


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