Three Mile Island Unit 2

Company

GPU Nuclear Corporation
1 Upper Pond Road
Parsippany, NJ 07054

NRC and FEMA Region

I and III

Location

Five miles south of Harrisburg, Pennsylania, by Middletown

NSSS Type and Supplier

PWR - Babcock and Wilcox

Turbine Manufacturer

Westinghouse

Containment

Reinforced concrete cylinder with steel liner - post tensioned in three directions

Cooling

Natural and mechanical draft towers

Engineer

Burns and Roe and Gilbert Associates, Inc.

Constructor

United Engineers and Constructors

Plant Phone Number

717-944-7621

NRC Docket Number

50-320

Licensed MWt

2772

Electrical Capacity (MWe)

880

Announced

February 3, 1967

Application Docketed

April 29, 1969

Construction Permit

November 4, 1969

Operating License

February 8, 1978

Initial Criticality

March 28, 1978

Commercial Operation

October 30, 1978

Shutdown

March 28, 1979
Commercial operation suspended after accident.