The federal government will provide "enhanced oversight" for nine different nuclear power plants in the path of Hurricane Sandy, including Three Mile Island and New York's Indian Point. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said each plant is overseen by at least two NRC resident inspectors and the agency will have additional inspectors ready to be sent in response to the storm. The NRC is also monitoring the plants from its Incident Response Center in Pennsylvania and its Operations Center at its headquarters in Maryland. In addition to Indian Point, which is north of New York City, and Three Mile Island, the Pennsylvania plant famous for a partial meltdown in 1979, the facilities receiving the "enhanced oversight" include the Salem, Hope Creek and Oyster Creek nuclear plants in southern New Jersey; Peach Bottom and Susquehanna in Pennsylvania, Calvert Cliffs in Maryland and Millstone in Connecticut. Jim Steets, the communications director for Entergy, which runs Indian Point, said that while they could experience flooding "greater than historically experienced," the plant is "still positioned well above that." Steets said that if conditions change and the storm takes a more threatening turn "such that we need to shut down the plant, we'll do that." Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant released radioactivity in March 2011 after an earthquake and tsunami there were followed by a meltdown. Editor's Note: An earlier version of this report stated that the NRC was sending additional inspectors to several nuclear plants in Sandy's path, including New York's Indian Point. While those plants will be receiving "enhanced oversight" and the NRC said they will dispatch additional inspectors in response to the storm, those inspectors will not necessarily go to all the plants originally listed. The NRC has not sent additional inspectors to Indian Point, according to an official there.