Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station is a civilian nuclear power plant located on an artificial island (Three Mile Island) near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It was originally built with two pressurized water reactors (TMI-1 and TMI-2), but after TMI-2 suffered a partial meltdown in 1979, its core was removed from the site. For more information on the nuclear accident, see the page on Three Mile Island, which discusses it exclusively.
The station is currently owned by Exelon and is operated by AmerGen Energy .
Unit One
Unit one is an 816MWe Pressurized Water Reactor supplied by Babcock and Wilcox. It first came online on April 19, 1974, and is licensed to operate through April 19, 2014. In 2003, Unit One generated 6,197,031 Megawatthours of electricity at a capacity factor of 86.5%.
Unit Two
Unit Two was also supplied by Babcock and Wilcox, but was destroyed by a partial meltdown in 1979. For more information about unit two, and the meltdown, see the Three Mile Island page, which discusses it exclusively.
External Links
DOE page on 3mi