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"There it is, the island–Three Mile Island; hiddin' in plain sight. No one's gonna snoop around a nuclear reactor. They think it's gonna turn 'em into freaks."
Gambit[src]

Three Mile Island is a nuclear power plant located in the Susquehanna River, south of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine[]

During the 1970s, it served as a mutant prison run by William Stryker and his team of scientists, where they experimented on and combined the mutants' powers for the Weapon X and Weapon XI programs. The facility was destroyed in 1979 following a battle between Wolverine, Sabretooth and Deadpool.

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  • In real life, there was an accident on Three Mile Island in 1979. However, the film features several geographical and historical discrepancies:
    • Three Mile Island and the facility depicted in the film differs quite heavily from the real Three Mile Island, as detailed in this photo.
    • The accident on Three Mile Island wasn't caused by scientific experimentation on mutants, it was a series of failures caused by human error and mechanical malfunction in the plant's systems. The reactor was compromised and much of its contents were destroyed, but did not breach containment nor destroy the plant itself.

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