This week’s biggest Winners & Losers

The Three Mile Island nuclear reactor in Middletown, set to reopen in the coming years, will get a $1 billion boost from the Trump administration. The U.S. Department of Energy announced that it finalized a $1 billion loan to Constellation Energy Generation, owner of the soon-to-be-revived Three Mile Island Unit 1. The reactor relaunch is part of an agreement with Microsoft to offset the electricity demands of the company’s data centers.

Approximately 940,000 Pennsylvanians will qualify for a new Working Pennsylvanians Tax Credit, signed into law in the new state budget, resulting in $193 million in tax relief. The credit will be available for the next tax season and equals 10% of the federal Earned Income Tax Credit. Those who qualify for the federal credit will now automatically receive both credits, making tax season a little less stressful for nearly 1 million Pennsylvanians.

For years now, Philadelphia’s gastronomic glitterati have suffered the ignominy of being overlooked by Michelin’s global tastemakers, even as the city is regularly lauded for one of America’s best dining scenes. But this week, the French tire outfit expanded its culinary critiques to Philadelphia, awarding coveted stars to three local restaurants – and “bib gourmand” recognitions to another 10.

The university’s first-year numbers continue to be grim: down 19% this year, with nearly one-third fewer students – 1,918 – than the 2,831 who enrolled just four years ago. Drexel is hoping those statistics improve under its new president, economist Antonio Merlo, who is at the forefront of an ongoing academic restructuring involving school consolidations and a move from quarters to a semester system.

The ICU and the cancer and endoscopy centers, along with 131 employees, are to be eliminated at Montgomery County’s Pottstown Hospital, part of the financially beleaguered Berks County-based Tower Health system. The cuts represent Southeastern Pennsylvania’s latest attenuation of healthcare services; Chester County’s Crozer Health system shuttered earlier this year.

Someone took the phrase “going postal” a little too literally. Thomas Dorn, a 39-year-old from Natrona, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of threatening to murder a federal official and communicating interstate threats. Dorn allegedly threatened to shoot his postal carrier and his post office. The FBI – which seized his 11 firearms – didn’t take that lightly.