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The Three Mile Island Unit 1 is a pressurized water reactor designed by Babcock & Wilcox with a net generating capacity of 819 MW e. The initial construction cost for TMI-1 was US$400 million, equal to $2.47 billion in 2018 dollars. [31] Unit 1 first came online on April 19, 1974, and began commercial operations on September 2, 1974. [32]
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.
Giant cooling towers at Constellation Energy's Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania have sat dormant for so long that grass has sprung up in the towers' hollowed-out bases and wildlife ...
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 ...
Three Mile Island was the site of a well publicized accident, the most significant in the history of American commercial nuclear power. The Three Mile Island Visitor Center, in Middletown, PA, educates the public through exhibitions and video displays.
The Three Mile Island accident plays a pivotal role in Heat and Light, a 2016 novel by Jennifer Haigh. [158] Meltdown: Three Mile Island is a four-part docuseries released by Netflix on May 4, 2022. [159] The documentary recounts the events, controversies, and lingering effects of the accident. [160]
Microsoft has agreed to purchase Three Mile Island's energy to power its AI data centers for the next 20 years. It's the first time a U.S. nuclear reactor will come out of retirement.
Londonderry Township is a township in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States.The population was 4,890 at the 2020 census. [2]The township includes the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station, the location of the largest accident in the history of the American nuclear power generating industry, which took place in 1979.