Three Mile Island Archives

Cylinder-shaped white turbines in an industrial room with metal scaffolding

Nuclear boosters, skeptics eyeing Three Mile Island restart

Rachel McDevitt·October 22, 2024

Labor, training and inspections are just some of the variables as TMI prepares to go back online, something no other nuclear plant has done after shutting down.

Economy Energy

Community Group Created to Advise Three Mile Island Cleanup

Rachel McDevitt·March 26, 2021

A citizens committee will now help guide the decommissioning of the plant’s infamous Unit 2 reactor, which partially melted down in 1979. One question is what should be done with the radioactive waste.

Energy

Federal Agency Approves Transfer of TMI-2 for Decommissioning

Rachel McDevitt·December 4, 2020

The partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island reactor is still the country’s most serious accident at a nuclear power plant.

Energy

Thyroid Cancer Study Re-Ignites Debate over Three Mile Island Accident

Brett Sholtis·January 3, 2020

Many thyroid cancer patients point to the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island 40 years ago as the cause of their disease. A Penn State College of Medicine study shows a correlation.

Energy Health

Three Mile Island Will Close Sept. 30, as Nuclear Rescue Legislation Stalls in Harrisburg

Marie Cusick·May 10, 2019

Some 600 workers will be out of a job. The company says nuclear energy should be valued as a source of carbon-free electricity.

Climate Change Energy

The Enrico Fermi Nuclear Power Plant, on Lake Erie near Detroit, Michigan. Photo: James Marvin Phelps via Flickr

Poll: Public Split on Nuclear Bailout

Reid Frazier·March 29, 2019

Respondents generally support nuclear as part of the state’s energy mix. But when it comes to the government acting to help out the industry, they aren’t so sure.

Climate Change Energy

Meltdown at Three Mile Island: 40 Years Later

PA Post·March 28, 2019

Watch this documentary that details what happened inside the containment building at TMI on March 28: the chaos, confusion, miscommunication and fear.

Energy History Video