PSEG's Hope Creek reactor in New Jersey shut down automatically on Sunday.
A plant spokesman told the South Jersey Times that a high moisture separator level tripped the plant's turbine, which caused the reactor to shut down automatically. The shutdown did not pose a risk to the public or affect the neighboring Salem units at PSEG's Artificial Island complex southeast of Wilmington, Del.
Hope Creek had exited a routine refueling outage on Nov. 10. It uses a single General Electric Type 4 boiling water reactor to generate 1,219 megawatts.