State proposes hefty fee hikes on nuclear plants

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ALBANY — State fees on nuclear power plant operators could nearly double next year under the governor’s proposed budget.

Annual fees would swell from $550,000 to $1 million per reactor, according to budget division spokesman Matt Anderson. The money collected from New York’s six reactors would be split – half funneling to the counties and local municipalities located around the reactors and the other half staying with the state, Anderson said.

Entergy Nuclear, the New Orleans-based company that owns two reactors at the Indian Point Energy Center in Buchanan and another at the James Fitzpatrick site near Oswego, declined to opine about the state’s squeeze.

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