NRC self-defensive against local resolution calling for Oyster Creek's shut down

NRC file photo of Oyster Creek atomic reactorIn a letter dated June 8th, NRC has rebuffed an April 26th (passed on the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe's 25th commemoration, ironically) resolution passed by Berkeley Township calling for the closure of the 41 year old Oyster Creek atomic reactor. The oldest operating commercial reactor in U.S. history, Oyster Creek is a General Electric Boiling Water Reactor of the Mark 1 design, an identical twin to Fukushima Daiichi Units 1 to 4. The NRC Commissioners, by a split decision, voted to approve the 20 year license extension at Oyster Creek on April Fool's Day, 2009, a decision then finalized by NRC staff a week later. Beyond Nuclear's Paul Gunter helped lead the intervention against the license extension. The Asbury Park Press has reported on this story.