Three Mile Island Could Become First American Nuclear Plant To Reopen

America is reexamining its relationship with nuclear energy.

AP/Matt Rourke
The control room at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, Middletown, Pennsylvania in 2017. AP/Matt Rourke

Three Mile Island, which suffered a partial meltdown in 1979, may become the first American nuclear plant to be reopened as people warm to the idea of expanding the country’s use of nuclear energy.

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