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Site of America's worst nuclear accident gets new chance to become energy hub
After World War II, nuclear power was heralded as the future of energy. Then the partial meltdown at Three Mile Island in 1979 marked a turning point and solidified opposition. In two decades, a dozen U.S. reactors have closed and only three have come online. But the site of America’s worst nuclear accident may now be the site of its rebirth. William Brangham reports for our series, Tipping Point.
President Trump signed executive orders last week to boost production of nuclear power, an energy source with a complicated history in the U.S. They sit quietly now, perched on an island in the middle of the Susquehanna River, four giant cooling towers, two nuclear reactors, and one terrifying chapter in American history. She points to tech companies like Amazon and Google and chemical giant Dow, which have all invested in helping develop new nuclear technology to generate power with much smaller modular reactors.
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