Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Station |Hope Creek Nuclear
Generating Station| Hope Creek NPP, image courtesy of the NRC
|Location||Lower Alloways Creek| |Commission date||December 20,
1986| |Licence expiration||April 11, 2046| |Reactors
operational||1 x 1059 MW| |Reactor supplier(s)||General
Electric| |Power station information| |Generation units||1 GE
25kV| |Power generation information| |Installed capacity||1059
MW| |Annual generation||8,104 GW·h| |As of 2011-07-21| Hope
Creek Nuclear Generating Station is a thermal nuclear power
plant located in Lower Alloways Creek Township, New Jersey, in
the Mid-Atlantic United States, on the same site as the two-unit
Salem Nuclear Power Plant. The plant is owned and operated by
PSEG Nuclear LLC. It has one unit (one reactor), a boiling water
reactor (BWR) manufactured by GE. The complex was designed for
two units, but the second unit was cancelled in 1981. It has a
generating capacity of 1,268 MWe. The plant came online on July
25, 1986, licensed to operate until 2026.