The owner of the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant says it plans to restart the reactor under a 20-year agreement that calls for tech giant Microsoft to buy the power to supply its data centers.
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FILE - Shown are the unit 2 cooling towers at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pa., Monday, May 22, 2017. said Friday that it plans to restart the reactor under a 20-year agreement that calls for tech giant Microsoft to buy the power to supply its data centers with carbon-free energy.The plant, on an island in the Susquehanna River just outside Harrisburg, was the site of the nation’s worst commercial nuclear power accident, in 1979.
To prepare to restart Unit 1, “significant investments” must be made to restore the plant, including the turbine, generator, main power transformer and cooling and control systems, Constellation said.from the first American nuclear reactor to be built from scratch in decades, after the accident at Three Mile Island froze interest in building new ones.
Microsoft and Constellation did not release terms of the agreement. Before it was shut down in 2019, Unit 1 had a generating capacity of 837 megawatts, which is enough to power more than 800,000 homes, Constellation said.to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory. What is left inside the containment building remains highly radioactive and encased in concrete.Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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