Trump's resurrection of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant

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Forty-six years after a nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island, the Trump administration is lending Constellation Energy a billion dollars to restart the undamaged reactor at the plant, located in Middletown, Pennsylvania. It was the site of the worst nuclear disaster in U.S. history, which speaks extraordinarily well of nuclear energy.