Three Mile Island

proper noun

An island of Londonderry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States, on Lake Frederick, Susquehanna River; the site of a nuclear power plant accident in 1979.

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proper noun
  1. An island of Londonderry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States, on Lake Frederick, Susquehanna River; the site of a nuclear power plant accident in 1979.
  2. A nuclear power plant located on the island; the site of a nuclear accident in 1979.
  3. A nuclear reactor core partial meltdown in 1979, at the nuclear power plant's reactor unit 2
nounThree Mile Island (plural Three Mile Islands)

plural Three Mile Islands

  1. An informal unit of measurement for a nuclear disaster, equivalent to that of the incident in 1979 in Pennsylvania

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