Microsoft köper all energi från nygammalt kärnkraftverk. Vid Three Mile Island utanför Harrisburg i USA.

Microsoft köper all energi från nygammalt kärnkraftverk

Vid Three Mile Island utanför Harrisburg i USA

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Microsoft har slutit ett avtal med Constellation Energy om att köpa all el som produceras av det återupplivade kärnkraftverket Three Mile Island utanför Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Constellation Energy investerar 1,6 miljarder dollar för att återstarta den andra reaktorn på verket, som stängdes 2019 av ekonomiska skäl. Avtalet sträcker sig över 20 år.

Den första reaktorn har varit permanent avstängd sedan den partiella härdsmältan 1979.

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WWikipediaThree Mile Island accidentThe Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown of the Unit 2 reactor (TMI-2) of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station, located on the Susquehanna River in Londonderry Township, Dauphin County, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The reactor accident began at 4:00 a.m. on March 28, 1979, and released radioactive gases and radioactive iodine into the environment. It is the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history, although its small radioactive releases had no detectable health effects on plant workers or the public. The accident was the largest release of radioactive material in U.S. history until the Church Rock uranium mill spill four months later. On the seven-point logarithmic International Nuclear Event Scale, the TMI-2 reactor accident is rated Level 5, an "Accident with Wider Consequences".