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U.S. nuclear plant Three Mile Island to reopen, sell power to Microsoft
CBS News ^ | September 20, 2024

Posted on 09/20/2024 7:58:23 AM PDT by billorites

U.S. nuclear plant Three Mile Island, the site of the worst nuclear accident in American history, is to restart operations in a deal to sell power to Microsoft, Constellation Energy said Friday.

The firm announced the 20-year deal would involve the restart of the Unit 1 reactor, "which operated at industry-leading levels of safety and reliability for decades before being shut down for economic reasons exactly five years ago today."

Microsoft will buy energy from the plant as part of its goal to help match the power its data centers use with carbon-free technology, according to a news release announcing the deal. The reactor is expected to be online in 2028, pending approval from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

An economic impact study commissioned by the Pennsylvania Building & Construction Trades Council found that reopening the plant will create 3,400 direct and indirect jobs, according to the news release. It would also add up to 837 megawatts of carbon-free electricity to the power grid that can power more than 800,000 average homes.

The plant's restart will also add $16 billion to the state's GDP and generate more than $3 billion in state and federal taxes, according to the report.

The Unit 1 reactor was not involved in the 1979 partial nuclear meltdown at the site in Pennsylvania. "Significant investments" are being made to restore the reactor, including updating its turbine, generator, cooling and control systems and main power transformer, according to the news release.

The plant will be renamed the Crane Clean Energy Center, in honor of former Constellation Energy CEO Chris Crane, who died in April.

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1 posted on 09/20/2024 7:58:23 AM PDT by billorites
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2 posted on 09/20/2024 8:04:15 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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What could possibly go wrong?......................


3 posted on 09/20/2024 8:05:19 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Good thing it’s near HARRIS-BURG.................


4 posted on 09/20/2024 8:05:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Wow. Well these companies that have more money than God and have massive energy demands to feed their business model should be doing this. I bet Amazon was eyeing this move as well.


5 posted on 09/20/2024 8:06:44 AM PDT by Rural_Michigan
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AI uses lots of power.


6 posted on 09/20/2024 8:07:31 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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AI is going to require a lot of power. It’s amazing that Microsoft can cut through the red tape with no problem, but if it’s to benefit the average citizen it will take decades.


7 posted on 09/20/2024 8:09:27 AM PDT by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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The left has finally been embracing nuclear, we could have been so far ahead, more advanced, and the people better off if they had not fought it for more than 60 years.

A lot of lifetimes have missed out on cheap endless energy, but perhaps future generations will have it in abundance someday.

Radiant floor heating, snow melting sidewalks, indoor rotating vegetable gardens, no concerns about winter and summer electric bills, competitive manufacturing, all these things should have been part of the last couple of decades.


8 posted on 09/20/2024 8:10:12 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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Has ai done anything good, all I see is stories about people being layed off.


9 posted on 09/20/2024 8:11:18 AM PDT by armourenthusiast (I capitalize everything related to South)
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Has ai done anything good, all I see is stories about people being layed off.

We'll probably see an increase in stolen identity and lots of other bad thigs.

10 posted on 09/20/2024 8:13:43 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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lol.. does anyone else get that matrix feeling from the enormous amount of energy AI takes right now.. and exponentially more each day??
Plug in and power a world of death and destruction. #ErasingReplacingHumanity


11 posted on 09/20/2024 8:14:53 AM PDT by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with.)
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If Kamala wins, this will get delayed and cancelled.


12 posted on 09/20/2024 8:17:19 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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This is great—the more nuclear, the better.


13 posted on 09/20/2024 8:22:01 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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Reviews say it's a CPU hog.

14 posted on 09/20/2024 8:22:56 AM PDT by McGruff (Ask everyone, Are you better off than you were four years ago?)
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It’s Harrisburg. Plenty wrong already.


15 posted on 09/20/2024 8:27:20 AM PDT by FLNittany (Autotune is jealous of Karen Carpenter)
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I went to Three-Mile Island for a Job interview.

Got the cook’s tour of the place.

Was approved but I turned it down.............


16 posted on 09/20/2024 8:29:00 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Great idea coupling AI with limitless power. they say it won’t be the machines...but it WILL be the machines. and you thought terminator was just a movie?


17 posted on 09/20/2024 8:33:34 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star)
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I thought windmills and solar was going to fuel Ai? The symbol of anti-nukes is back on line. The best energy is nuclear and natural gas.


18 posted on 09/20/2024 8:43:57 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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"It’s amazing that Microsoft can cut through the red tape with no problem"

That's not amazing at all, Microsoft is one of the wokest companies out there.

Great things happen to your business prospects when you promote progressive ideology.

19 posted on 09/20/2024 8:45:32 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (We cannot vote our way out of these problems. The only way out is to activist our way out.)
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20 posted on 09/20/2024 8:47:05 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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