The Latest Breaking News from Three Mile Island

Bringing the defunct power plant back online is a good thing. The government's involvement is not.

The U.S. Department of Energy says it's loaning $1 billion to help finance the restart of the nuclear power plant on Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island to supply power to data centers for tech giant Microsoft

Constellation's Three Mile Island deal with Microsoft is worth perhaps $115 per megawatt hour, twice or more the current market price of electricity - and more deals are likely in the works. After the announcement, CEG jumped as much as 22%, the most on record, to an all-time high. Since…

The plant last operated in 2019, and was the site of the most significant commercial nuclear power accident in US history.

Pennsylvania plant was site of most serious nuclear meltdown and radiation leak in US history in 1979

Company plans to use plant’s undamaged reactor to power its AI data centers.

Three Mile Island, the site of America's worst nuclear accident, will restart operations to provide power to Microsoft, Constellation Energy announced Friday.

It's part of a 20-year agreement to provide Microsoft with the massive energy needed to power its artificial intelligence aims.

Public pressure, stoked by disasters at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima, put pressure on successive German governments to end their use. Germany began winding down the plants Saturday.