N.J. approves 3 more years of $300 million subsidies to keep its nuclear plants going

It would allow them to avoid a long and expensive process of hooking into a fraying electric grid that serves everyone else.

Place: If Three Mile Island is the only plant in trouble right now then the bill is, “quite an expensive solution to the issue.”

Pennsylvania Rep. Thomas Mehaffie (R-Dauphin) on Monday introduced a bill aimed at keeping two of the state’s five nuclear plants from retiring early.