Three Mile Island Running Again, After Switch Problems

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Scott Detrow is a congressional correspondent for NPR. He also co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.

Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

September 24, 2012 | 11:30 AM

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Dauphin County's Three Mile Island

Three Mile Island shut down for about a day-and-a-half last week, due to “problems with a relay switch on a reactor coolant pump,” as the Patriot-News reports.
The Exelon power plant also shut down in late August, but the paper reports nuclear reglulators don’t think the two incidents are related.
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Three Mile Island personnel replaced the relay, installed additional monitoring capabilities and tested the pump prior to restarting it.
“We performed the necessary repairs safely and efficiently and are committed to a reliable operating cycle,” Rick Libra, TMI site vice president, said in a statement.