If TMI closes, owner to delay dismantling to 2074
If Three Mile Island’s Unit 1 nuclear plant closes this September, the plant’s owner would be in no rush to take the unplugged plant apart. Exelon Generation said Friday it would let the plant’s large components – including its reactor and landmark cooling towers – sit idle for 55 years before they get dismantled.
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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.