After all that, Three Mile Island closes with a whimper, and a whisp

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Forty-five years and a lot of anxiety - and cash flow - later, the Three Mile Island nuclear power station on the Susquehanna River is in retirement.

But the main public acknowledgment of that Friday felt more like a wake than a retirement party, as local officials mourned what they called the premature loss of a high-performing, safe source of economic and electric power for the midstate and beyond.


Inside the plant, and out of public view, the plant was formally removed from the region’s power grid at 12:07 p.m., according to sources on hand. Employees then gathered for what plant spokesman Dave Marcheskie called “a private, intimate ceremony to celebrate 45 years of service.”


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