Why Oyster Creek?
Oyster Creek Generating Station is a reliable source of affordable, clean electricity for New Jersey today, and in the future. Affordable • • Oyster Creek produces six percent of New Jersey’s electricity with virtually no air emissions • • More than 50 percent of New Jersey relies on nuclear energy. If Oyster Creek, or another nuclear energy source, were replaced by a non-nuclear source like a new gas plant, the cost for generating electricity could increase by up to 50 percent, potentially increasing energy costs for consumers. • • Nuclear power has the lowest production cost of the major sources of electricity. Nuclear plants are the most efficient on the electricity grid and their costs are more predictable than many other energy sources. • • Oyster Creek serves nearly 600,000 homes Clean • • Nuclear energy does not produce greenhouse gases because it does not burn anything to generate electricity. Nuclear energy plants produce no gases such as nitrogen oxide or sulfur dioxide that
