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Bond In Investing Savings Almost two weeks after they were shut down because of an oil spill upriver, one nuclear power plant in Salem County was running and another was being readied to go back on line.

Those of us who live close to the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in Lacey should not have to live in fear of becoming a possible "prompt fatality." Continuing to promote fossil fuels and nuclear power for our energy needs is not only irresponsible but shortsighted. Eventually, we will run out of fossil fuels. destructive by using highly dangerous nuclear power. We no longer have to accept these outdated, polluting power sources now that safe, renewable energy is available.

Bond Investment Toledo Toledo The Salem I and Salem II plants were shut down Dec. 3 in the aftermath of a massive oil spill in the Delaware River a week earlier.

Eventually, the case was won and the floating power plant plan was finally abandoned. Had all this not happened, there would now be another, even closer, nuclear power plant to be concerned about in our area. And incidentally, one of our many points of objection made to the NRC a generation ago was the vulnerability of the proposed nuclear power plant to terrorist attack. John Williamson Linwood, NJ

James Bond Trading Card The plants, run by PSEG Nuclear, use water from the Delaware River for cooling.

The government is expected to approve plans for the construction of a new generation of nuclear power stations in the UK today. Business secretary John Hutton is believed to be making an announcement when he reveals plans to replace ageing nuclear power stations across Britain. Speaking to Reuters about the move, a source close to Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that household and business electricity customers should expect some costs from the operation of the new plants to affect their...

Bond In Investing Stock Plant operators were concerned that globs of oil might clog screens or heat exchangers in the cooling operations.

As a recent Press editorial so ably pointed out, New Jersey and the Northeast may not get the clean air to which we are entitled. The 1970 Clean Air Act, fired plants in the Midwest and South to install new pollution controls when plants underwent major modifications, is being circumvented. The plant owners have gotten around the intent by just letting the plants continue to run, even though they are inefficient, in order not to clean the air. The law has a loophole that has to be closed.

Municipal Bonds Investment But the biggest oil globules found near the plants' water intakes were the size of peas, said PSEG Nuclear spokesman Chic Cannon.

A Dec. 21 letter writer from Berkeley urged that the nuclear power plant in Lacey be closed because of health problems related to radioactive emissions polluting the air, water and land for over 30 years. Additionally, she believes that without the fear of a nuclear accident, people and businesses will be less hesitant about living in Ocean County.

Bond Terms Trading The plants were restarted last weekend. Salem II was running Tuesday afternoon and by Wednesday the Salem I plant was within a few days of being ready to be connected to the power grid.

Bond Debt High In Inside Hope Creek, the third nuclear power plant on Artificial Island, about 15 miles south of Wilmington, Del., has been shut down since Oct. 10 when a pipe burst.

Bond Greenville Greenville The plants feed power to a regional energy pool, so their shutdown did not directly affect consumers.

Trading Stock And Bonds The oil spill began when a single-hulled tanker trying to dock in Paulsboro struck a pipe on the riverbed. As much as 473,000 gallons of oil spilled, giving an oily sheen to 118 linear miles of the river.

Bond Investing Municipal Associated Press - 12/15/2004

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