Three Mile Island

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishThree Mile IslandˌThree Mile ˈIsland a place in Pennsylvania in the US, where there was a serious accident in 1979 in a nuclear power station (=a place where electricity is produced using nuclear energy). The people in charge managed to prevent a meltdown (= when the nuclear material melts and burns through its containers), but the accident increased opposition to nuclear power in the US and prevented new power stations from being built.

单词	Three Mile Island
释义	Three Mile Island From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishThree Mile IslandˌThree Mile ˈIsland a place in Pennsylvania in the US, where there was a serious accident in 1979 in a nuclear power station (=a place where electricity is produced using nuclear energy). The people in charge managed to prevent a meltdown (= when the nuclear material melts and burns through its containers), but the accident increased opposition to nuclear power in the US and prevented new power stations from being built.
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