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Funding dispute with nuclear plant owner leads to town layoffs

By Robert Knox

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  February 09, 2012

Duxbury officials say a broken promise by Pilgrim nuclear power plant owner Entergy for more funding for emergency planning has caused the town to lay off two employees from its emergency department and weaken its preparation efforts. The town’s decision intensifies an ongoing rift with Entergy, which is required by federal law to provide financial support for planning purposes to the five communities that fall within the 10-mile Emergency Planning Zone around the Plymouth plant.

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