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.
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Jim Hamilton
Jim Hamilton is the Executive Director of The Nuclear Decommissioning Collaborative.
Jim has over twenty-years of experience managing the entire life-cycle (siting, design, permitting, construction, closure, decommissioning, remediation and redevelopment) of large-scale manufacturing, energy and infrastructure facilities throughout North, Central and South America.