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  • What it will take to restart decommissioned US nuclear plants

    Oct 30, 2024 10:30 am by Bulletin of the Atomic ScientistsIllinois in the News
    Three Mile Island Unit 1 (right) in Pennsylvania is one of the first two shutdown US reactors to be on path of being restarted to generate electricity again. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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    • Three Mile Island Unit 1 (right) in Pennsylvania is one of the first two shutdown US reactors to be on path of being restarted to generate electricity again. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

    Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (Nov. 29) Nuclear engineering professor Kathryn Huff and grad student Nathan Ryan write about plans to restart Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Michigan and Three Mile Island Unit 1 in Pennsylvania.