Rattle wrote: ] ] At least 100 dead fish were seen yesterday floating in ] ] the Oyster Creek by the nuclear power plant here, a ] ] veteran fisherman reported. ] ] ] ] Plant investigators saw four dead fish by the Route 9 ] ] bridge that crosses the creek and another near the ] ] plant's property line, but officials here said the plant ] ] did not cause them to die. ] ] ] ] "We've checked all of our systems and we've done ] ] nothing," said Ernest J. Harkness, site vice president at ] ] the Oyster Creek plant. ] ] ] The plant was shut down since Tuesday following an ] ] electrical malfunction. Power generation should resume ] ] within the next two days, Harkness said. ] ] ] ] In December, the largest fine ever assessed on a New ] ] Jersey nuclear power plant for causing a fish kill -- ] ] $372,912 -- was levied by the state Department of ] ] Environmental Protection against Oyster Creek. ] ] Oh yeah.. The plant is _never_ killing the fish. Not this ] time, not earlier this year, not every six months this ] happens. ] ] This time it was only a few hundred (or the offical number of ] "four"), last time it was thousands. Does this mean they are ] getting better? ] ] The workers are still striking too.. For God's sake, will you MOVE already?! I've been pissed that you live within spitting distance of that plant for some 10+ years now, would you please MOVE!? Don't come crying to me when you grow a third eye from the radiation. :.) RE: Asbury Park Press | Official: Plant did not kill any fish |