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I doubt that anything that connects to the name "Three Mile Island" is going to be good for PR.

No one died from the incident at Three Mile Island, so I hope that with better access to information people can be persuaded to change their minds.

Not to mention this nuclear reactor was only shut down in 2019. They're upgrading and recommissioning something that was mothballed because the economics didn't work, all of five years ago.

People reacting to the name are imagining that this means re-opening the other unit, which melted down in 1979. It's more fun to imagine and react to that than to learn that this was an operational plant until a few years ago.

>I doubt that anything that connects to the name "Three Mile Island" is going to be good for PR.

This. I'm surprised they didn't figure out a way to rename the place first.

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