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Thanks to a couple of Special Freepers for pointing me to this topic.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=nuclear

http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070425/NEWS/70425041

“River grass trips up reactor at Salem complex”
By JEFF MONTGOMERY, The News Journal
Posted Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 11:42 am

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Nature pulled the plug on a reactor at the Salem/Hope Creek nuclear complex late Tuesday.

A heavy slug of river grass near the plant’s massive cooling water intakes disrupted flows, prompting workers to manually insert rods designed to control and dampen nuclear reactions.

The plant already was experiencing trouble with its cooling water circulation system, with two units out of service for cleaning or problems.

PSEG Nuclear notified the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that the reactor was taken to “no load” conditions without complications. Unit 2 was unaffected.”

http://www.nj.com/news/bridgeton/local/index.ssf?/base/news-8/1177075564155780.xml&coll=10

“PSEG considers fourth reactor for Salem Nuclear Generating Station
Friday, April 20, 2007”
By JOHN BARNA
Staff Writer

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A fourth nuclear reactor is under discussion for the Salem Generating Station in Salem County the nation’s second-largest such complex.

The prospect was raised earlier this week at a Public Service Enterprise Group shareholder’s meeting in Newark.

“It’s exploratory,” PSEG Nuclear spokesman Chic Cannon said Thursday. “It’s keeping options open for the future.”

“They mentioned they are in exploratory talks with another company to build another reactor,” said Neil Sheehan, a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in King of Prussia, Pa.

The Salem Generating Station “would be priority choice” to host another reactor, Cannon said.

That’s the home of the Salem I and II nuclear plants opened in 1977 and 1981 respectively and Hope Creek, which opened in 1986.”