At a Nuclear Plant, Hurricane Brings More Worry

Oyster Creek is the nation's oldest nuclear plant.  Stan Honda/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images

nytimes.com - by Michael Powell - January 7, 2013

LACEY, N.J. — Some years ago, Janet Tauro moved to the pine barrens and salt-flecked flats of the Jersey Shore, where she would raise her children. Then she found that Oyster Creek, the nation’s oldest nuclear plant, sat on her doorstep.

She became a nuclear activist, one of dozens who bird-dog the Oyster Creek plant, and helped persuade Gov. Chris Christie to shutter the place by 2019. But not even the closing notice set her mind at ease.

Then Hurricane Sandy blew through, spinning houses off foundations, blowing holes in barrier islands and wrecking lives.

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