Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station
Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Station is an inactive single unit 636 MWe boiling water reactor power plant in the United States. The plant is located on an 800-acre site adjacent to Oyster Creek in the Forked River section of Lacey Township in Ocean County, New Jersey.Photo: KyleAndMelissa22, CC0.
- Type: Industry
- Description: architectural structure
- Address: NJ
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Waretown and Forked River.
Waretown
Town
Waretown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located on the Jersey Shore within Ocean Township, in Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Waretown is situated 1½ miles southwest of Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station.
Forked River
Village
Photo: KLOTZ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Forked River is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located within Lacey Township, in Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Forked River is situated 2 miles northeast of Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station.
Lanoka Harbor
Hamlet
Lanoka Harbor is an unincorporated community located within Lacey Township, in Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Lanoka Harbor and Murray Grove were established in the mid-18th century and are representative of the typical bay town, often… Lanoka Harbor is situated 4 miles northeast of Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station.
Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station
- Category: nuclear power plant
- Location: Lacey Township, Ocean County, Jersey Shore, New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.81484° or 39° 48′ 53″ northLongitude
-74.20481° or 74° 12′ 17″ westElevation
20 feet (6 metres)Inception
December 1969Open location code
87F7RQ7W+W3OpenStreetMap ID
way 1173697372OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrialGeoNames ID
4503468Wikidata ID
Q1536314
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “محطة أويستر كريك للطاقة النووية”
- French: “Centrale nucleaire d’Oyster Creek”
- French: “centrale nucléaire d’Oyster Creek”
- French: “Centrale nucléaire d’Oyster Creek”
- French: “Centrale Nucléaire De Oyster Creek”
- French: “Centrale nucléaire Oyster Creek”
- German: “Kernkraftwerk Oyster Creek”
- Japanese: “オイスタークリーク原子力発電所”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oyster Creek kjernekraftverk”
- Norwegian: “Oyster Creek kjernekraftverk”
- Russian: “АЭС Ойстер-Крик”
- Spanish: “Central nuclear de Oyster Creek”
- Spanish: “Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station”
- Spanish: “Planta de energia nuclear Oyster Creek”
- Spanish: “Planta de energía nuclear Oyster Creek”
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