The owner of the TMI Unit 1 reactor opened up the closed plant to media to show their confidence that the site can repower without issue.

TMI’s restart is being hailed by those who want to cut climate pollution, but it’s opposed by people concerned about the risks of radiation from nuclear power and waste.

The plant’s control panel and a model of the reactor core will be preserved, as well as signs, maps, and photos from the time of TMI-2’s partial meltdown in 1979.

TMI Unit 1 owner Constellation said this summer it would be technically possible to repower the plant, but it does not have concrete plans to restart it.

Power demand is growing now with the rise of data centers and new technology

The remaining 1% of fuel is the hardest to get out.

Three Mile Island Unit 2 is moving into an active clean-up period known as DECON.

TMI-2 Solutions is applying to change its license to say it is decommissioning the plant by disposing of radioactive materials at a commercial site or decontaminating materials on site.

TMI Unit 1 owner Exelon Generation said a contract worker was fatally injured around 11 a.m. on Friday.

Taking down the structures will mark the beginning of the end for a fixture of the central Pennsylvania landscape.