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TexasTowelie

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Thu Jul 25, 2019, 03:49 AM Jul 2019

Infamous Three Mile Island reactor set to be sold, dismantled

Three Mile Island's Unit 2 has been closed since 1979, when it was the site of the worst ever U.S. reactor accident. Now a Salt Lake City-based nuclear services company is in talks to buy and dismantle the facility.

Energy Solutions Inc. has signed a term sheet with FirstEnergy Corp. to acquire the Pennsylvania site, according to a statement Tuesday. Terms weren't disclosed and the deal doesn't include Unit 1, the Exelon Corp.-owned reactor that's scheduled to be closed in September.

Three Mile Island's Unit 2 is arguably the nation's most infamous nuclear plant. In March 1979, a pump failure triggered an emergency shutdown that resulted in a partial meltdown and a radiation leak. It remains the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history.

Seven U.S. nuclear plants have gone dark since 2013 and at least six more are expected to be closed in the next few years as the facilities struggle to compete against cheap electricity from natural gas and renewables. That's spurred the emergence of decommissioning specialists that buy the plants and tear them down.

Read more: https://www.wacotrib.com/news/trending/infamous-three-mile-island-reactor-set-to-be-sold-dismantled/article_dc6fe05c-69db-5859-ade9-ddc215b29ba6.html
(Waco Tribune-Herald)

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Infamous Three Mile Island reactor set to be sold, dismantled (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2019 OP
Good news. Shut them all down. marble falls Jul 2019 #1
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