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Thursday, November 08, 2012  Oswego County will test the Prompt Notification System for the 10 mile Emergency Planning Zone around the Scriba nuclear plants on Friday.

Monday, November 14, 2011  Oswego County officials have come to a tax agreement with Constellation Energy over its two nuclear plants at nine mile point.

Wednesday, May 04, 2011  According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Nine Mile Point and James A. Fitzpatrick nuclear plants are running smoothly -- but officials discovered a security violation at Fitzpatrick, which according to a spokewoman, has been corrected.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011  Japan raised the crisis level at its crippled nuclear plant Tuesday to a severity on par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, citing high overall radiation leaks that have contaminated the air, tap water, vegetables and seawater.

Thursday, March 17, 2011  As the nuclear crisis in Japan deepens, local community groups gathered Thursday to call for the closing of nuclear plants in the United States.

Thursday, March 17, 2011  Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday that he wants to review information from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission about safety of a nuclear plant that lies near a seismic fault line 35 miles north of Manhattan.

Friday, March 26, 2010  New York utility regulators have rejected Entergy Corp.'s plan to spin off its six nuclear power stations into a separate company.

Thursday, March 04, 2010  Power provider Entergy Corp. has agreed to financial concessions in an attempt to win approval from New York regulators for a proposed spinoff of six nuclear units.