<P> Unit 2 has not been operational since the accident occurred . </P> <P> The New York Times reported on August 14, 1993, 14 years after the accident, that the clean up had been finished . According to the United States NRC, 2.3 million gallons of waste water had been removed . </P> <P> The incident was widely publicized internationally, and had far - reaching effects on public opinion, particularly in the United States . The China Syndrome, a movie about a nuclear disaster, which was released just 12 days before the incident and received a tepid reception from the movie - going public, became a blockbuster hit . </P> <P> On January 22, 2010, officials at the NRC announced the electrical generator from the damaged Unit 2 reactor at TMI will be used at Shearon Harris Nuclear Plant in New Hill, North Carolina . The generator was transported in two parts, weighing a combined 670 tons . It was refurbished and installed during a refueling outage at Shearon Harris NPP in November 2010 . TMI's Unit 2 reactor has been shut down since the partial meltdown in 1979 . </P>

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