The New York Power Authority’s callout to upstate communities willing to host a nuclear power plant has attracted several suitors.
In Oswego County, home to three of the state’s four nuclear reactors, state lawmakers say a fifth on the shores of Lake Ontario would be a welcome addition.
The three reactors — two at Nine Mile Point and a third at James A. FitzPatrick in the town of Scriba — have been around since the 1970s, their future secured by a nearly $8 billion ratepayer-funded bailout negotiated by the Cuomo Administration in 2017 amid talk of a FitzPatrick shutdown.
They’re located about 30 miles from Clay, where tech giant Micron is building a $100 billion manufacturing hub for semiconductors.
“The demand is certainly going to be there,” said state Assemblyman Will Barclay, a Re

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