Nation IN BRIEF : PENNSYLVANIA : NRC Calls A-Plant Storage Plan Safe
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
There’s no danger in putting Three Mile Island’s damaged nuclear reactor into long-term storage, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in a report. GPU Nuclear Corp., which operates the two Three Mile Island reactors in Harrisburg, Pa., wants Unit 2 put into storage until both plants are decommissioned in 2014. Unit 2 was crippled March 1979 in the worst accident to occur at a U.S. commercial nuclear power plant.
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