Three Mile Island

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Three Mile Island

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
  4. An island of the town of Meredith, Belknap County, Lakes Region, New Hampshire, United States, on Lake Winnipesaukee.

Similar: TMI

noun 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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@misc{three_mile_island_2026,
  title = {Three Mile Island},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/three%20mile%20island},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}