EDITORIAL: Legislature shouldn’t intervene to prop up Three Mile Island Unit 1 reactor
Three Mile Island is scheduled to start the process of closing later this year. Two area lawmakers plan legislation that might help keep TMI open. Opponents of the proposal call it a “bailout” for an aging and inefficient plant. A Monday, May 22, 2017, file photo shows cooling towers at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pennsylvania.
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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.