The core overheated, and a few hours later ... “The fact that the Three Mile Island accident is the most talked about accident in the history of the U.S. nuclear power industry, even though ...

Three Mile Island's Unit 1 is set to reopen in a $1.6 billion deal with Microsoft, signaling a potential nuclear power ...

Three Mile Island’s undamaged Unit 1 reactor sits next to Unit 2, which was shut down after a partial core meltdown in 1979.

Three Mile Island on the Susquehanna River is located about 16 km SE ... The vessel (1) contains the reactor core (2) in which the control rods can be inserted from above (3). The cooling system is ...

The core overheated, and the plant released ... Magazine clippings about the Three Mile Island accident on the wall at Kuppy’s Diner in Middletown, Pa.Credit...George Etheredge for The New ...

[Advertisement] Jim Lounsbury: A simple mechanical accident at 4:00 in the morning last March at Three Mile Island touched off the worst accident in the history of American nuclear power.

This relief valve remained open and caused a catastrophic loss of coolant — eventually causing the entire core to overheat ...

On April 1, Thornburgh accompanied President Jimmy Carter on a tour of Three Mile Island. The outcome of the accident was still uncertain, but Thornburgh and Carter knew that their appearance ...

The owner of the closed Three Mile Island nuclear plant hopes to have a new license – and a new name for the plant – to ...

Three Mile Island forever tainted the image of nuclear power in the United States; no new plants were opened for 30 years after the accident. The effects of the radiation leak were, thankfully ...

The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, site of the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history, could reopen in 2028. The plant’s owner, Constellation Energy, signed a deal with Microsoft that ...