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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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Well, it’s a good way to thumb their noses at misguided environmentalists who protested fission plants after the Three Mile Island meltdown.
Maybe that nuclear renaissance - including firing up America's Three Mile Island energy plant once again - won't be needed.
In September, Microsoft signed a 20-year deal to buy power from Constellation Energy, which will lead to the reopening of the infamous Three Mile Island power station in Pennsylvania – the site of the worst nuclear accident in US history, where a reactor suffered a partial meltdown in 1979.
“When you look at Three Mile Island restarting — that was something nobody would have ever even thought of.”
The infusion of new talent and ideas is a significant change from when Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island disaster in 1979 and the Chernobyl meltdown in 1986 devastated the industry.
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