Three Mile Island Nuke to Reopen with Microsoft Contract

On Friday (September 20th) Baltimore-based Constellation Energy and Microsoft jointly announced an agreement to reopen the shuttered 835 mw Three Mile Island Unit 1 nuclear plant located near Harrisburg, PA. Its more famous twin, unit 2, has been closed since its partial core meltdown in 1979–the single worst accident in US commercial nuclear operating history. Unit 2 is presently being decommissioned. Unit 1 was unscathed by the accident and continued operating until its 1999 closure for economic reasons. Constellation estimates it will…