James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission defines two emergency planning zones around nuclear power plants: a plume exposure pathway zone with a radius of {{convert|10|mi}}, concerned primarily with exposure to, and inhalation of, airborne radioactive contamination, and an ingestion pathway zone of about {{convert|50|mi}}, concerned primarily with ingestion of food and liquid contaminated by radioactivity.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/emerg-preparedness/about-emerg-preparedness/planning-zones.html|title=Emergency Planning Zones|date=September 29, 2014|website=U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission|access-date=2016-11-02}}

The 2010 U.S. population within {{convert|10|mi}} of FitzPatrick was 35,136, an increase of 17.0 percent in a decade, according to an analysis of U.S. Census data for msnbc.com. The 2010 U.S. population within {{convert|50|mi}} was 909,798, an increase of 3.2 percent since 2000. Cities within 50 miles include Syracuse (36 miles to city center). Canadian population is not included in these figures, such as Kingston, Ontario, 49 miles to the city center.{{Cite web |date=2011-04-14 |title=Nuclear neighbors: Population rises near US reactors |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna42555888 |access-date=2024-08-16 |website=NBC News |language=en}}

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's estimate of the risk each year of an earthquake intense enough to cause core damage to the reactor at FitzPatrick was 1 in 163,934, according to an NRC study published in August 2010.{{Cite web |date=2011-03-16 |title=What are the odds? US nuke plants ranked by quake risk |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna42103936 |access-date=2024-08-16 |website=NBC News |language=en}}{{Cite web |url=http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Sections/NEWS/quake%20nrc%20risk%20estimates.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2011-04-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525170632/http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Sections/NEWS/quake%20nrc%20risk%20estimates.pdf |archive-date=2017-05-25 |url-status=dead }}

On November 2, 2015, Entergy Corporation announced that it intended to close the James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant because it is becoming too costly to operate.{{cite news |title=Entergy to Close Nuclear Plant on Lake Ontario, Angering Cuomo |first=Patrick |last=McGeehan |date=November 2, 2015 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/nyregion/entergy-to-close-nuclear-plant-on-lake-ontario-angering-cuomo.html}} The nuclear industry's profits had been squeezed out by cheaper energy from natural gas plants. “Given the financial challenges our merchant power plants face from sustained wholesale power price declines and other unfavorable market conditions, we have been assessing each asset,” Chief Executive Officer Leo Denault said in the statement. “Market conditions require us to also close the FitzPatrick nuclear plant.”{{cite news |title=Entergy to Close FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in New York |first=Jim |last=Polson |date=November 2, 2015 |work=Bloomberg Business |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-02/entergy-to-close-james-a-fitzpatrick-nuclear-power-plant-ighwq4q9}}

In 2016, Cuomo directed the Public Service Commission to consider ratepayer-financed subsidies similar to those for renewable sources to keep carbon free nuclear power stations profitable in the competition against carbon based natural gas.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/21/nyregion/nuclear-subsidies-new-york-clean-energy-plan.html |title=Nuclear Subsidies Are Key Part of New York's Clean-Energy Plan |first=Vivian |last=Yee |date=July 20, 2016 |work=The New York Times}}{{cite web |url=http://documents.dps.ny.gov/public/MatterManagement/CaseMaster.aspx?MatterCaseNo=15-E-0302&submit=Search+by+Case+Number |title = NYSDPS-DMM: Matter Master}}

In August 2016, Exelon agreed to buy the plant pending regulatory approval and formally acquired ownership and operation on March 31, 2017.

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• {{cite web |url=http://www.eia.gov/nuclear/state/newyork/ |title=New York Nuclear Profile|date=2010|publisher=Energy Information Administration. U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).|access-date=2016-11-04}}
• {{cite news |title=If No One Wants The FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant To Close, Why Is It Closing? |work=Forbes |first=James |last=Conca |date=November 10, 2015 |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2015/11/10/if-no-one-wants-the-fitzpatrick-nuclear-power-plant-to-close-why-is-it-closing/}}

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