Shut New York Reactor May Hit Boston With Higher Power Prices

The shutdown of a nuclear reactor outside New York City typically means higher power costs for local customers. This time, though, Boston may well end up bearing the brunt of any supply shortfall.

Entergy Corp. is extending an outage at its Indian Point 2 nuclear plant on the Hudson River by several weeks after engineers found bolts were missing in the reactor, which had been shut on March 7 for scheduled refueling.