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Restart of Three Mile Island tests US appetite for nuclear revival
Legal threats, skills shortages and regulatory challenges complicate reopening of plant at site of nuclear accident
Three Mile Island Alert, a group founded almost half a century ago to lobby for the closure of the plant in Middletown, Pennsylvania — site of the worst nuclear accident in US history — said it would challenge government licences required by operator Constellation Energy, which is targeting a restart in 2028. “The demand for carbon-free electricity is growing and there are people who recognise the warming climate is a real challenge and they are willing to pay to bring projects like this back to life to help reduce their own carbon footprint,” said Bryan Hanson, Constellation’s chief generation officer, who is managing TMI’s restart. But numerous regulatory hurdles remain before TMI can restart — a point highlighted when federal regulators last week surprisingly rejected a grid interconnection request for an Amazon Web Services data centre at the site of Talen Energy Corp’s Susquehanna nuclear power plant.
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