Why Microsoft Is Reopening Three Mile Island

Microsoft is paying to restart a nuclear reactor on the same island as America's worst commercial nuclear accident. Why would one of the richest companies on Earth want THIS reactor, and why is the United States suddenly bringing dead nuclear plants back to life? This video traces Three Mile Island from the 1979 meltdown and the Kemeny Commission's findings, through the 1982 vote and the 1985 restart of Unit One, to its shutdown in 2019 when cheap natural gas made it unprofitable. You will learn why data centers now need power that never switches off, what the Constellation and Microsoft deal involves, and how the Palisades and Duane Arnold restarts fit the same pattern. The video also weighs the case for and against bringing these plants back, and what the decision means for a community that was asked once before and said no. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:58 The China Syndrome 1:39 The Meltdown 3:12 Evacuation and Response 4:33 America Stops Building 6:15 Unit One Restarts 7:32 The Data Center Boom 10:14 The Reactors Return #ThreeMileIsland #NuclearPower #Microsoft #DataCenters #AI