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Three Mile Island
noun
- an island in the Susquehanna River, near Middletown, Pennsylvania, SE of Harrisburg: scene of a near-disastrous accident at a nuclear plant in 1979 that raised the issue of nuclear-energy safety.
Three Mile Island
1- The location of an accident in 1979 in a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania . The plant underwent a partial meltdown that resulted in some radiation leakage into the atmosphere , panic among nearby residents, losses of billions of dollars, and intense criticism of nuclear power programs in general.
Three Mile Island
2- The location of an accident in 1979 in a nuclear power plant — an electrical generator powered by a nuclear reactor — in Pennsylvania . The plant underwent a partial meltdown that resulted in very little leakage of radiation into the atmosphere , panic among nearby residents, losses of billions of dollars, and intense criticism of nuclear power programs in general. ( Compare Chernobyl .)
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