Could Three Mile Island open again? [Video]

MIDDLETOWN, Pa. — Five years after it was completely shut down, there’s a chance that the nuclear power plant at Three Mile Island could be restarted.

According to an article published this week by Reuters, Three Mile Island’s current owner, Constellation Energy, has entered talks with Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s office and state lawmakers to help fund a possible restart of the facility.

Three Mile Island, the site of “the most serious accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant operating history,” according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, was decommissioned and closed in 2019, though cleanup efforts around Reactor No. 2, which nearly melted down in the infamous March 28, 1979 incident, are ongoing.

The negotiations, which two sources described to Reuters as “beyond preliminary,” are a sign that Constellation is looking to …