AI’s thirst for energy sealed the deal between Microsoft and Constellation on the plant, where memories of a partial meltdown ...

Constellation Energy is preparing to restart what's now called the Crane Clean Energy Center on Three Mile Island to supply ...

Three Mile Island's Unit 1 is set to reopen in a $1.6 billion deal with Microsoft, signaling a potential nuclear power ...

Microsoft is making good progress on its PPA with Constellation to reopen Three Mile Island, but it's not all smooth sailing ...

Big tech needs to find more energy-efficient ways to run AI data centers, and direct their major energy investments, along with the government, to clean renewable energy that doesn’t make our ...

Three Mile Island, the site of the worst commercial nuclear accident in American history, is slated to reopen in 2028. In ...

Cooling towers at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania, where Constellation Energy plans to restart a reactor it shut down in 2019.Credit... Supported by By Rebecca F.

In September, a Pennsylvania nuclear energy company announced plans to reopen the Three Mile Island nuclear plant—the site of the most significant nuclear accident in U.S. history—to power Microsoft ...

Successfully resurrecting Three Mile Island, which is widely known for a 1979 partial meltdown that cast a pall over the U.S. nuclear sector for decades, would put the plant at the front edge of ...

But critics say nuclear power is expensive and poses health risks. One of the biggest challenges would be public approval, ...

Anna Erickson of Georgia Tech explains why the public and private sectors are investing in reactor technology and restarting retired plants. The system, though, still faces cost, safety and regulatory ...