Generator from damaged Three Mile Island reactor moving to new home in North Carolina plant

Three Mile Island generator moving to N. Carolina

MIDDLETOWN, Pa. — A generator in storage for more than three decades after the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant is heading to North Carolina.

Officials at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission say the electrical generator from the damaged Unit 2 reactor at TMI will be used at Progress Energy’s Harris Nuclear Plant in North Carolina.

NRC spokesman Neil Sheehan said Thursday that preliminary work is under way to move the generator. It will be moved in two parts weighing a combined 670 tons.

TMI’s Unit 2 reactor has been shut down since a stuck valve caused a partial meltdown in 1979. Sheehan says the generator was not contaminated with radiation.

Information from: The Patriot-News, www.pennlive.com/patriotnews