Nuclear reactor sale captures industry interest

From: The Topeka Capital-Journal | Date: March 15, 1999| Author: H. JOSEF HEBERT | Copyright information

The Associated Press

MIDDLETOWN, Pa. -- Anybody want to buy a nuclear reactor? Surprisingly, some people do, at a bargain price, undeterred even by a neighbor with a troubled history.

An eager buyer is snapping up Three Mile Island's healthy reactor, in the first sale in U.S. history of a nuclear power plant in its entirety. The reactor, still churning out electricity, sits next to the shell of its twin, TMI's No. 2 reactor, the site of the country's worst nuclear power accident....

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