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According to the Sierra Club, as of 2016 there were a total of 16 coal-fired power plants in Missouri, a decrease from 2012, when there were 23. [5] A Missouri City coal-fired power plant operated by Independence Power & Light closed in 2015; the facility was aging (60 years old) and could not comply with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pollution regulations. [6]
The plant is Missouri's only nuclear power plant and is close to Fulton, Missouri. [2] The 2,767 acres (1,120 ha) site began operations on December 19, 1984. It generates electricity from one 1,190- megawatt Westinghouse four-loop pressurized water reactor and a General Electric turbine - generator .
The Unit 1 reactor on Three Mile Island, which closed in 2019, is adjacent to the Unit 2 reactor that experienced a major nuclear power accident in 1979
Three Mile Island, located near Harrisburg, is best known for being the most serious accident at a commercial nuclear power plant in US history when it experienced the partial meltdown of one of ...
U.S. nuclear plant Three Mile Island, the site of the worst nuclear accident in American history, is to restart operations in a deal to sell power to Microsoft, Constellation Energy said Friday ...
The Three Mile Island accident plays a pivotal role in Heat and Light, a 2016 novel by Jennifer Haigh. [160] Meltdown: Three Mile Island is a four-part docuseries released by Netflix on May 4, 2022. [161] The documentary recounts the events, controversies, and lingering effects of the accident. [162]
A power company is planning to restart a dormant nuclear reactor at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear generating station to help meet the power demands of high-tech data centers.
Three Mile Island from Goldsboro, Pennsylvania in 2013 Three Mile Island from Middletown, Pennsylvania in 2014 September 2019 photo of Three Mile Island and the Exelon training center and simulator building (left). On November 21, 2009, a release of radioactivity occurred inside the containment building of TMI-1 while workers were cutting pipes.