States’ nuclear energy growth needs federal action to follow Trump’s vocal support

Rising Electricity Demand Could Bring Three Mile Island Back to Life

Three Mile Island was the site in 1979 of a partial meltdown at the plant’s Unit 2 reactor. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission calls this event “the most serious accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant operating history,” although only small amounts of radiation were released, and no health effects on plant workers or the public were detected. Unit 1 was not affected by the accident. University of Michigan nuclear engineering professor To…

States’ nuclear energy growth needs federal action to follow Trump’s vocal support • Indiana Capital Chronicle

The shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania, pictured on Oct. 10, 2024. The plant’s owner, Constellation Energy, plans to spend $1.6 billion to refurbish the reactor that it closed five years ago and restart it by 2028 after Microsoft recently agreed to buy as much electricity as the plant can produce for the next 20 years to power its growing fleet of data centers. Nuclear energy is a rare point of agreemen…

States’ nuclear energy growth needs federal action to follow Trump’s vocal support • Michigan Advance

The shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania, pictured on Oct. 10, 2024. The plant’s owner, Constellation Energy, plans to spend $1.6 billion to refurbish the reactor that it closed five years ago and restart it by 2028 after Microsoft recently agreed to buy as much electricity as the plant can produce for the next 20 years to power its growing fleet of data centers. Nuclear energy is a rare point of agreemen…

States’ nuclear energy growth needs federal action to follow Trump’s vocal support • Nebraska Examiner

The shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania, pictured on Oct. 10, 2024. The plant’s owner, Constellation Energy, plans to spend $1.6 billion to refurbish the reactor that it closed five years ago and restart it by 2028 after Microsoft recently agreed to buy as much electricity as the plant can produce for the next 20 years to power its growing fleet of data centers. Nuclear energy is a rare point of agreemen…

Pennsylvania’s and other states’ nuclear energy growth need federal action following Trump’s vocal support

The Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant is seen on September 21, 2024 from across the river in Etters, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Matthew Hatcher/Getty Images)WASHINGTON —  President Donald Trump and his team have signaled a strong interest in continuing to strengthen federal support for nuclear power, an energy source Democratic states are increasingly open to expanding. The administration’s loudly pro-nuclear position creates a rare point of overlap …

States’ nuclear energy growth needs federal action to follow Trump’s vocal support • Missouri Independent

The shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania, pictured on Oct. 10, 2024. The plant’s owner, Constellation Energy, plans to spend $1.6 billion to refurbish the reactor that it closed five years ago and restart it by 2028 after Microsoft recently agreed to buy as much electricity as the plant can produce for the next 20 years to power its growing fleet of data centers. Nuclear energy is a rare point of agreemen…