Oyster Creek shutdown in NJ could leave high taxes, giant casks of dangerous radioactive waste
Three miles of pine forest separatePaul Berkowicz’s ranch-style home from a cluster of towering canisters on a concrete pad containing one of mankind’s most dangerous substances. For decades, the 68-year-old retired educator has lived and worked near the Oyster Creek Generating Station, the nation’s oldest operating commercial nuclear power plant until it stopped energy production in September.