Three Mile Island Reactor 2 clean-up picks up pace, for now, as Reactor 1 restart preps continue

MIDDLETOWN, Pa. (WHTM) -- Six years after the decommissioning officially began, workers are now making tangible progress on the clean-up of Three Mile Island Reactor 2, project leaders said Wednesday night.

"We're actually inside the reactor vessel right now," said Sam Bambino, the senior vice president of energy solutions for TMI-2 Solutions. "We're inside the building. We're building site infrastructure to ready ourselves for waste to be removed from site."

Bambino spoke to abc27 News before a public meeting at Penn State Harrisburg, one of a series of meetings that happen every few months.

One huge change not envisioned back when TMI-2 decommissioning planning began: plans to restart nuclear energy production at Reactor 1.

The accident and near-meltdown in 1979 happened at Reactor 2