Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Station

Hope Creek Nuclear is a Thermal Nuclear Power Plant located in Hope Creek NJ. The plant is owned soley and operated by PSEG Nuclear LLC. It has one unit (one reactor), a Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) built by General Electric. It has a generating capacity of 1,049MW. The plant came online on July 25th, 1986, and its license to operate expires April 11, 2026.

Quite impressively, while Hope Creek is one of only three nuclear power plants in New Jersey (the others are the Salem Nuclear Power Plant, and the Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plant), together they produce over half (53% in 2003) of the electricity consumed by the state. The other 50% of the states power is generated by approximately 250 generating units of various types (coal, petroleum, natural gas, hydro power, waste, and other).

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