Final copy: Press Conference Opposing the Restart of Three Mile Island: Tuesday, September 3, 2024 at 11 A.M. at the Capitol
PRESS CONFERENCE BY NATIONAL, REGIONAL AND LOCAL CITIZENS
TO OPPOSE THE REOPENING OF THREE MILE ISLAND UNIT ONE.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
AT 11 A.M. AT THE CAPITOL ROTUNDA
Representatives from national, regional, and local anti-nuclear groups will present a press conference on Tuesday,
September 3, 2024 at 11 a.m. in the Capitol Rotunda to announce continued opposition to the planned reopening
of Three Mile Island Unit One which has been proceeding quietly behind the scenes by its owner Constellation Energy.
Representatives from the national Nuclear Information Resources Service will be presenting along with representatives
from the, Three Miles Island Alert, No Nukes Pennsylvania and the Middletown Concerned Mothers and Women,
who are the focus of the award winning film “Radioactivity: The Women of Three Mile Island.
Three Mile Island has two units. Three Mile Island Unit Two, brought on line in late 1978, had the worst nuclear accident
in American history forty-five years ago in 1979 and the final cleanup of the metal core is stalled due inadequate funding.
Three Mile Island Unit One was brought on line in 1974. It was off-line for six years from 1979 until 1985. Pennsylvania
citizens fought to keep Unit One shut due to the insanity of running a nuclear power plant next to a completely damaged
nuclear plant. However, In 1985 the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Pennsylvania politicians, and Pennsylvania state
regulators did not listen to Central Pennsylvania citizens even though the surrounding counties voted overwhelmingly
to keep it shut down in a non-binding referendum on May 18, 1982. It was finally closed in 2019 because it could not
sell its power profitably.
Now after five years of being closed, the enablers, Constellation Energy, Pennsylvania politicians and the nuclear industry,
want to reopen Unit One in order to serve the needs of the “artificial intelligence” power demand not the citizens. Another
prime example of technological tyranny.
Everything has been progressing in the dark, but after many months, events are coming into the scrutiny of the light of day.
Constellation Energy has been reviewing the hardware at Unit One and assessing the viability of a plan to reopen it. The
Pennsylvania governor and legislators are trying to provide money to make it happen. Federal funding is abundantly
available as the effort progresses.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a biased, captured regulator, along with the Nuclear Energy Institute, and the
Pennsylvania legislature will do everything in their power to make the reopening possible, including a bailout of over
$1 billion dollars.
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