Because the power plants were built on an island named Three Mile Island.
Pennsylvania
The Three Mile Island accident was a nuclear meltdown which occurred at the Three Mile Island power plant in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States on March 28, 1979.
No, but the reactor at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania had a near melt-down. Nuclear plants don't explore. They have meltdowns.
Pennsylvania
The president at the time of the Three Mile Island nuclear incident was Jimmy Carter.
Pennsylvania
Three Mile Island.
The Three Mile Island accident was a nuclear meltdown which occurred at the Three Mile Island power plant in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States on March 28, 1979.
Three Mile Island, Pa, 1979
Three Mile Island is in the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania. The nuclear power plant is about 12 miles southeast of the center of the city of Harrisburg.
It didn't explode. Three Mile Island's Nuclear Power Plant in Pennsylvania experienced an almost complete meltdown.
No, but the reactor at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania had a near melt-down. Nuclear plants don't explore. They have meltdowns.
Three Mile Island The accident at the Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI-2) nuclear power plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania occurred on March 28, 1979.
Umm... I think it was the Three Mile Island accident
Due to an accident that began at 4 a.m. on Wednesday, March 28, 1979, Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant was Condemned and permanently shut down.
I think it is just the name of the river island where the plant is located, and was called that long before nuclear power was developed, but who named it I don't know, you would have to ask the local history group if there is one.
You are probably thinking of the Three Mile Island plant reactor melt down in 1979