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Wright Tours Three Mile Island Restart Site for Faulkner Focus

December 19, 2025 · U.S. Department of Energy · 0:07:20

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What happened

Fox News’s Faulkner Focus toured the Three Mile Island plant with Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Constellation Energy’s chief executive, in the Department of Energy’s upload of the segment. The segment recounts that Unit 2 suffered a partial meltdown in 1979 while Unit 1 operated until 2019, when its owners closed it citing competition from natural gas and renewables and a lack of state subsidies.

The segment reports that Microsoft and Constellation had announced a 20-year power purchase agreement to restart Unit 1 to supply the tech company’s artificial-intelligence and cloud data centers, and that the Department of Energy had announced a $1 billion loan to Constellation the previous month to help restart the reactor.

Wright said accelerating the restart would drive down electricity prices and help ensure America leads in the AI race against China, arguing that if China moves well ahead in AI it would become the economically and militarily dominant power. On the government’s role, Wright said Constellation and Microsoft were the real players — operator and buyer — and that the department was helping enable the restart to happen faster.

Why it matters

The segment showcases the administration’s nuclear-restart model — a federal loan accelerating a private restart anchored by a tech-company power contract — at the most recognizable nuclear site in America.

Scoreboard watch

Scoreboard watch: the segment’s report that the Department of Energy provided a $1 billion loan to Constellation to restart Three Mile Island Unit 1 under a 20-year Microsoft power purchase agreement. Flagged for the scoreboard editor; no verdict is published from this page.

Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, “Secretary Wright Joins the Faulkner Focus at Three Mile Island - December 19, 2025”, 2025-12-19 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-12-19). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.