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Three Mile Island, site of 1979 nuclear reactor accident, reopening to power AI
Three Mile Island, the shuttered Pennsylvania nuclear power plant that was the site of a 1979 reactor accident that remains the worst commercial nuclear power plant accident in U.S. history ...
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What happened the day when one of the worst nuclear disasters in US history took place at Three Mile Island
Correction: May 19, 2023 — An earlier version of this story misstated Three Mile Island as the worst nuclear disaster in US history. However, it's come to our awareness that the Church Rock ...
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Three Mile Island was not a nuclear disaster
The dormant cooling towers are from Unit 2, which was permanently damaged in the 1979 accident. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons In 1979, the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, located just ...
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Three Mile Island, Site of Worst Nuclear Accident in U.S. History, Plans to Reopen Under New Microsoft Deal
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 ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty A ...
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Three Mile Island was the site of the country’s worst nuclear disaster. Now AI energy demands might turn it back on
In 1979, a partial meltdown of a reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant along ... which was the country’s worst nuclear accident in history.) “Though we have determined it would ...
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Site of America’s worst nuclear accident gets new chance to become energy hub
After World War II, nuclear power was heralded as the future of energy. Then the partial meltdown at Three Mile Island in ...
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Three Mile Island nuclear accident: Here’s how it unfolded in 1979
a malfunctioning valve set off what would become “the most serious accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant operating history.” The incident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power ...
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Three Mile Island Accident Deaths, Location: Facts on Nuclear Meltdown's Anniversary
It has been 39 years since a meltdown at Three Mile Island became the most significant nuclear accident in U.S. history. On March 28, 1979, one of the reactors at that power plant partially melted ...
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Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant To Shut Down In 2019
The company that owns the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, site of the worst nuclear disaster in U.S. history, announced that it plans to shutter the facility in 2019 unless the state of ...
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40 years after Three Mile Island accident, debate over safety of nuclear energy still goes back and forth
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has long stood by its determination that the amount of radiation released in the 1979 Three Mile Island accident was well under acceptable levels and that no ...
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A nuclear accident made Three Mile Island infamous. AI’s needs may revive it.
The dormant power plant renowned as the site of the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history — Three Mile Island — may be switched back on, driven in part by the ravenous energy appetites of ...