New Jersey’s largest utility has asked the feds to halt all air traffic over two of its nuclear power plants — after drones were spotted over the sensitive sites, The Post has learned.
Congressman Fred Van Drew (R-NJ) confirmed to The Post that PSE&G filed the request with the Federal Aviation Administration on Friday.
The rare appeal comes amid a spate of mysterious drone sightings across the Garden State as well as in parts of Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Staten Island.
Van Drew said the company is “concerned about their nuclear facility” after a pair of drones was spotted this week hovering over the Salem Nuclear Power Plant and the adjacent Hope Creek Generating Station, both in Lower Alloways Creek Township, about 25 miles from Wilmington, Del., and 50 miles from Philadelphia.
“[The incursion] wasn’t over the most sensitive area of the plants, but this had never happened before,” Van Drew told The Post. […]
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