PSEG Given Five-Year State Permit For Salem Reactors Water Draw

Environmental groups in New Jersey lost their bid to force PSEG Nuclear to build two expensive cooling towers for the company's Salem Unit 1 and Unit 2 reactors in Hancocks Bridge, N.J., as the state's department of environmental protection granted the company a five-year permit to continue with their current open-loop cooling system that draws 3 billion gallons of water per day from the Delaware River.(read more)