Three Mile Island faces shutdown without financial rescue from Pennsylvania

Owner of plant - site of worst commercial nuclear power accident in US history - urges state to preserve 'clean, reliable' energy source

The owner of Three Mile Island, site of the worst commercial nuclear power accident in US history, will shut down the plant in 2019 unless it receives a financial rescue from the Pennsylvania state government.

In March 1979, equipment failure and operator errors led to a partial core meltdown of one of Three Mile Island's two reactors. The damaged reactor has been mothballed since then but the other reactor is still in use.