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Three Mile Island in 2019, prior to shutdown. Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (commonly abbreviated as TMI) is a shutdown nuclear power plant on Three Mile Island [a] in Pennsylvania on the Susquehanna River just south of Harrisburg. It has two separate units, TMI-1 (owned by Constellation Energy) and TMI-2 (owned by EnergySolutions).
Three Mile Island, the site of one of the US's worst nuclear disasters, may soon reopen. ... The second reactor remained open after the accident before finally closing in 2019. It is this reactor ...
Three Mile Island, the site of worst nuclear disaster in the United States, is reopening and will sell the power to Microsoft for its AI efforts. ... The US still has no permanent repository for ...
A relaunch of Three Mile Island, which had a separate unit suffer a partial-meltdown in 1979 in one of the biggest industrial accidents in the country's history, still requires federal, state and ...
The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown of the Unit 2 reactor (TMI-2) of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station on the Susquehanna River in Londonderry Township, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The reactor accident began at 4:00 a.m. on March 28, 1979, and released radioactive gases and radioactive iodine into the ...
The effects included "metallic taste, erythema, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, hair loss, deaths of pets, farm and wild animals, and damage to plants." [16] Some local statistics showed dramatic one-year changes among the most vulnerable: "in Dauphin County, where the Three Mile Island plant is located, the 1979 death rate among infants under one ...
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.
The health effects of the Three Mile Island accident are widely, but not universally, agreed to be very low level. [153] [155] The accident triggered protests around the world. [156] The 1979 Three Mile Island accident was a pivotal event that led to questions about U.S. nuclear safety. [157]