Inside the efforts to restart the Three Mile Island nuclear plant

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LONDONDERRY TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania — The efforts to reopen one of Three Mile Island’s nuclear reactors accelerated by an entire year last week, less than 50 years after the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history happened at the Pennsylvania plant.

The Washington Examiner recently got a look inside unit one of the facility, which was not damaged during the 1979 incident and shut down in 2019, and toured its turbine service building, control room, turbine deck, and cooling towers. 

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