Closing of Three Mile Island is right decision, but now state must plan for future [opinion]
Exelon announced May 8 that it will shut down Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station’s Unit 1 reactor, which began operation in 1974, by Sept. 30. The Dauphin County facility, which was infamously the site of a partial meltdown of Unit 2 in 1979, has been losing hundreds of millions of dollars per year.
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Jim Hamilton
Jim Hamilton is the Executive Director of The Nuclear Decommissioning Collaborative. Jim has over twenty-years of experience managing the entire life-cycle (siting, design, permitting, construction, closure, decommissioning, remediation and redevelopment) of large-scale manufacturing, energy and infrastructure facilities throughout North, Central and South America.