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Three Mile Island accident
The
Three Mile Island accident
was a
nuclear meltdown
that occurred on March 28, 1979, in reactor number 2 of
Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station
(TMI-2) in
Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
, United States. It was the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history. The incident was rated a five on the seven-point
International Nuclear Event Scale
: Accident With Wider Consequences.
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