The shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant stands in the middle of the Susquehanna River on October 10, 2024. One of the plant’s two reactors partly melted down in 1979, but the second one operated for decades before it was closed. It is now set to be restarted as early as 2028, pending approval by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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The Trump administration has tightened its control over the independent agency responsible for overseeing America’s nuclear reactors, and it is considering an executive order that could further erode its autonomy, two U.S. officials who