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The Latest Breaking News from Three Mile Island

As tech companies reboot nuclear energy, the site of the famous meltdown represents both the industry’s demise and its rebirth.

Reason

Cheers, Angst As US Nuclear Plant Three Mile Island To Reopen

The planned reopening of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant is praised as a boon for Pennsylvania and a boost for AI, but it is loathed by residents still haunted by a near-catastrophic meltdown there in 1979.

International Business Times

Three Mile Island Nearly Killed Nuclear. Now It's Coming Back.

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.

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Constellation Energy Stock is an AI Power Play

Constellation's Three Mile Island deal with Microsoft is worth perhaps $115 per megawatt hour, twice or more the current market price of electricity - and more deals are likely in the works. After the announcement, CEG jumped as much as 22%, the most on record, to an all-time high. Since…

Barchart

They're planning to restart the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant to power Microsoft's cloud and AI data centers

The plant last operated in 2019, and was the site of the most significant commercial nuclear power accident in US history.

PC Gamer

Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to restart to power Microsoft AI operations

Pennsylvania plant was site of most serious nuclear meltdown and radiation leak in US history in 1979

The Guardian - US

Three Mile Island is reopening to power Microsoft's AI data centers

Company plans to use plant’s undamaged reactor to power its AI data centers.

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US Nuclear Plant Three Mile Island To Reopen To Power Microsoft

Three Mile Island, the site of America's worst nuclear accident, will restart operations to provide power to Microsoft, Constellation Energy announced Friday.

International Business Times

Power Company Plans To Restart Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant

It's part of a 20-year agreement to provide Microsoft with the massive energy needed to power its artificial intelligence aims.

International Business Times

Germany begins powering down its last three nuclear plants

Public pressure, stoked by disasters at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima, put pressure on successive German governments to end their use. Germany began winding down the plants Saturday.

WEKU

Underwater pictures from inside Fukushima nuclear reactor spark safety concerns

About 880 tonnes of highly radioactive melted nuclear fuel remain inside the plant's reactors, about 10 times the fuel that was removed in the clean-up of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in 1979.

ABC News

‘Dodged a bullet’: how whistleblowers averted a second US nuclear disaster

The Netflix docuseries Meltdown: Three Mile Island, revisits a 1979 nuclear accident and the cut corners that could have resulted in a disaster years later

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