Salem

Business Agent for Salem County: Ray MacDowell

The Salem and Hope Creek Generating Stations operated by PSE&G
in Lower Alloway Creek Township, Salem County, New Jersey are the two
largest employers of UA members to support their refueling outages.
Thousands of UA members from across North America and beyond
came to help build these plants. Construction began in the late
1960s and ended with the completion of Hope Creek Unit 1 in 1985.

On this page you will find photos from construction as well as during
online maintenance and refueling outages.

One of the UA's mobile welding trailers visited UA members on the
job at PSEG's Salem/Hope Creek Generating Stations during 2009

Salem 2 Generating Station, 2008

Steam Generator Replacement Outage 2R16

Salem 2 Generating Station, 2007

The long awaited arrival of the new steam generators for PSEG's Salem Unit 2 is here. The Replacement Steam Generators, or RSGs as they're known, are being delivered to PSEG the week of April 30, 2007. They will be stored on site until the upcoming Salem 2 outage next Spring. During that interim they will be made ready for placement inside the containment building.

LU 322 Brothers Bill Ulbin and Bob Derderian are both working on the project and were present when two of the RSGs, each weighing about 380 tons, were being made fast to the barge that will bring them to Artificial Island in Hancocks Bridge, NJ in early May.

Brother Bill Ulbin & PSEG Engineer Tina Nolte make ready to board the ship and observe offloading of the RSGs.	Pictured above is one of the huge shipboard cranes used to lift the RSGs out of the ship's hold and onto the waiting barge.

The new Steam Generators were manufactured by AREVA NP in France and transported by Big Lift Shipping to the United States. The Fagioli Group is providing the SPMTs and handling transport of the RSGs from the ship to PSEG by barge and overland using a SPMT to move them to where they will be stored onsite until the Steam Generator outage begins next Spring.

There were of course many other people who were involved in getting the new steam generators this far along in the project. This photo is of those who were present when the last RSG rolled off the barge at the Hope Creek slip on the evening of May 3, 2007.

Salem 1 Generating Station, 2007

Salem just finished a refueling outage for PSEG's Salem Unit 1 in the Spring of 2007 and is making preparations for the
Unit 2 steam generator replacement outage next Spring. The photos below are of LU 322 Pipefitters and Welders
working The SHAW Group Inc. in one of the fab shops at the plant.

Hope Creek Generating Station

Project Location: Hope Creek Nuclear Plant
Contractor Name: Bechtel
Photo Description: 145' Elevation Reactor Water Clean-up Room
Date photo was taken: 1989
Right to Left: Bill Pellegrino, J. J. Walter, Joe Kronberger,
Wally Palmer, and in background in PC's is Jamie Mesa

Hope Creek Generating Station 2005

Two new watertube package boilers from Victory Energy were installed to replace the three aging
boilers which were part of the original plant design for auxiliary and heating steam.

Salem Generating Station, 2004