When the second reactor opened at Connecticut’s Millstone Nuclear Power Station on Sept. 26, 1975, nuclear power was at the height of a golden age in the United States. Millstone, situated on a ...
LONDONDERRY TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania — The efforts to reopen one of Three Mile Island’s nuclear reactors accelerated by an entire year last week, less than 50 years after the worst nuclear accident in U ...
Piece by piece, bolt by bolt, the Indian Point nuclear power plant is being stripped down to its parts, each one a snapshot in time from the plant’s six decades supplying electricity to New York City ...
The biggest nuclear power plant in the United States is not a single hulking reactor, but a sprawling complex whose scale is measured in gigawatts and square miles. Its turbines quietly push out ...