NBC新闻:美国三里岛核电站永久关闭

The end came at noon today for Three Mile Island. The surviving nuclear reactor with those iconic cooling towers shutting down for good. Time has run out on Three Mile Island. A plan with many years of operating life that is closing prematurely. Local officials were mourning the loss of 675 jobs, a 60 million dollar annual payroll that is powered eight hundred thirty thousand homes and businesses for decades. 

Another blow to nuclear energy in America, with no new nuclear plants other than those already being built started in the U.S. Since the nation's worst nuclear accident four decades ago. The local community has been divided ever since. It was just panic, it was fear, it was all these emotions wrapped up into one. There wasn't enough radiation released from the accident to cause health effects. 300 workers will remain for now Dismantling the plant. Removing the radioactive spent, fuel could cost a billion dollars and take decades.