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Oyster Creek critics express similar concerns. Since January, Brick homemaker Janet Tauro has worked with township mayor [Joseph Scarpelli] to fight the license-extension request. Tauro is particularly concerned about the lack of an evacuation route in the event of a radiation leak at the aging plant. "You wouldn't be able to get out in time," she says. "There's one road in and one road out, and that's Route 9"-a highway that's mostly two lanes in Ocean County.
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Going Nuclear
New Jersey's two nuclear-power plants are under attack. Not by terrorists, but by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), which demands an improved maintenance regime at one site, and politicians and grass-roots groups that oppose extending the license at the other.
New Jersey has a great deal at stake in these battles. The two facilities provide electricity ...See the full content of this document
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