Three Mile Island reactor 1 (not the one that melted) breaks

[NNadir]

...the world record for continuous operation.

US: AmerGen Energy's Three Mile Island-1 nuclear power reactor broke its own world record for the longest continuous operation of a pressurised water reactor (PWR). The 870 MWe unit operated for 689 days before shutting down for a scheduled refuelling and maintenance outage on 24 October. The reactor set the previous record of 680 days in 2003. (Exelon, 24 October; see also News Briefings 03.42-8 and 05.38-5)

http://www.world-nuclear.org/nb/nb05/nb0542.htm#nb05.42-16

The reactor that melted 27 years ago was unit #2.

[jpak]

1. The Unit 2 accident cost a billion+ dollars (and counting)

Now that's a world record...

:)

[NNadir]

4. I guess you haven't calculated the cost of global climate change.

This is hardly a surprise.

No clue about the cost of strip mines either I'd guess.

[Massacure]

2. Your title is misleading

:nuke:

[Dead_Parrot]

3. methinks deliberatley... nt

[NNadir]

5. Who me?

:shrug:

[Dead_Parrot]

6. Hmmm... nt

[buddysmellgood]

7. What we need is carbon tax. That would help level the playing field. We

have no real sense of how much our energy costs, because we don't take all of the factors into account.