Three Mile Island was closed because it wasn’t economical to operate. Now Microsoft wants it restarted in the hopes it can supply carbon-free energy for its datacenters. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images North America
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MIDDLETOWN, Pennsylvania — Standing in front of one of Three Mile Island’s iconic cooling towers, Bryan Hanson remembers the day in 2019 when he shut the nuclear plant down.
“It was really melancholy,” Hanson, chief generation officer for the utility Constellation, recalls.
Three Mile Island is best known because its Unit 2 reactor partially melted down in 1979. But the Unit 1 reactor