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HOPE CREEK 1

Location: Salem, New Jersey, United States
Utility: Public Service Electric and Gas Company
Reactor Supplier: General Electric Co.
Steam Generators: General Electric Co.
Architecture: Bechtel Corp.
Construction: Bechtel Corp.
Capacity: 1031 net MWe
Reactor Type: Boiling water reactor (BWR)
Operable. Initial criticality: 06/1986
Commercial start: 12/1986
License Expiration date: 04/11/2026
Electricity Produced in 1997: 6.4 billion kWh
1997 Average Capacity Factor: 71.0%

Hope Creek sits next to the twin Salem units on Artificial Island in Lower Alloways Creek Township, New Jersey. The island, 30 miles southwest of Philadelphia in the Delaware River, is three miles long and one mile wide. Hope Creek's cooling tower is the tallest concrete structure in New Jersey.