PRESS CONFERENCE BY NATIONAL, REGIONAL AND LOCAL CITIZENS TO OPPOSE THE REOPENING OF THREE MILE ISLAND UNIT ONE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 2024
CONTACT: ERIC EPSTEIN
THREE MILE ISLAND ALERT
717-979-8767
CONTACT: GENE STILP
NO NUKES PENNSYLVANIA
717-829-5600
PRESS CONFERENCE BY NATIONAL, REGIONAL AND LOCAL CITIZENS
TO OPPOSE THE REOPENING OF THREE MILE ISLAND UNIT ONE.
TUEADAY, 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."
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 whole 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 one billion dollars.
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