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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
After World War II, nuclear power was heralded as the future of energy. Then the partial meltdown at Three Mile Island in ...
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 ...
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.
Three Mile Island — the infamous site of America’s worst nuclear disaster — is gearing up for a comeback, and Microsoft is first in line to tap into its energy. The tech giant signed a data ...
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 ...
On Mar. 28, 1979, the most significant nuclear power accident in U.S. history began after a pressure valve failed to close at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant near Harrisburg, Pa. What ...
Three Mile Island, the power plant near Middletown, Pa., that was the scene of the worst commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history, will reopen to power Microsoft's data centers, which are ...