three mile island in English

noun
1
an island in the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, site of a nuclear power station. In 1979, an accident caused damage to the reactor core, provoking strong reactions against the nuclear industry in the US.

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1. March The Three Mile Island accident partial nuclear meltdown occurred at the Three Mile Island power plant in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania in the United States.

2. The latter included the shocking accident in 1979 at Three Mile Island.

3. Well, picture the Hindenburg meets Chernobyl meets Three Mile Island meets Tron 2.

4. Indian Ambassador to Austria: It was because of the Three Mile Island incident that they had this referendum.

5. By this point, I am doing a meltdown that makes Three Mile Island look like a brush fire.

6. That is in spite of the fact that the Three Mile Island accident had already shown that a reactor core could melt down.

7. Japan's nuclear industry was not hit as hard by the effects of the Three Mile Island accident (TMI) or the Chernobyl disaster as some other countries.

8. Scranton's visit to Three Mile Island did not signal the end of the crisis, but it did remove some of the haunting mystery of the event for the Lieutenant Governor and those he worked with.

9. Just as the global nuclear industry drew valuable lessons from the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl accidents, after Fukushima, there is a strong expectation that global safety standards, implementation and crisis response procedures will be further strengthened, consolidated and updated in a continuous manner based on a scientific and objective analysis of the lessons learned.