Farewell to Three Mile Island: A timeline of the plant’s history
Building began on the first reactor at Three Mile Island (TMI-1) in May 1968. Designed and built by industrial services company Babcock & Wilcox for a then cost of $400m (now just under $3bn), TMI-1 was a pressurised water reactor (PWR) with a net capacity of 819MW.
About The Author
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.