Op-ed: Three Mile Island By the Numbers, What Exelon Won’t Tell You

Dear Editor:

Exelon has been targeting the media, elected officials, 

and the public with doomsday predictions regarding the 

closure of Three Mile Island Unit-1. Their numbers are 

misleading, don’t add up, and fail to account for the 

$1.1 billion rate payers were charged to build Three Mile

Island, the $987 million rate payers and taxpayers were

billed to defuel TMI-2, and the $5.26 billion in stranded

costs Exelon collected from rate payers to bailout their 

nuclear fleet as a result of deregulation.

When considering more bail out money for Three Mile 

Island, please remember the following numbers:

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