Analysis | The Energy 202: Should nuclear plants get a bailout in the name of climate change? Pennsylvania debates
In 1979, Pennsylvania was the site of one of the worst nuclear accidents in U.S. history. The partial meltdown of a reactor at Three Mile Island launched a wave of antinuclear sentiment that eventually led the United States to largely abandon building new nuclear power plants.
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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.