The quantum and plasma screening effects on the Wannier threshold law for the double-electron escape are investigated in strongly coupled semiclassical plasmas. The renormalized electron charge and Wannier exponent are obtained by considering the equation of motion in the Wannier configuration with the screened pseudopotential model as functions of the de Broglie wavelength, Debye length, and charge of the residual ion. It is shown that the renormalized electron charge significantly increases with an increase in the de Broglie wavelength, especially for small radial distances. It is also shown that the quantum effects enhance the Wannier exponent for the double-electron escape. In addition, the quantum effect on the Wannier threshold law is found to be more important than the plasma screening effect in strongly coupled semiclassical plasmas. © 2008 American Institute of Physics. ͓DOI: 10.1063/1.3021456͔After the seminal work of Wannier 1 on the ionization threshold law in 1953, the double-electron escape 2,3 from an atom or ion has received considerable attention because the investigation of the long-range radial electron-electron correlations has played an important role in many areas of physics. In addition, recently the electron ionization processes [4][5][6][7] in plasmas such as the electron-impact ionization and photoionization have received much attention since these processes provide useful information on various plasma parameters as well as knowledge about the dynamics and structure of atomic systems. It has been shown that the screened particle interaction in weakly coupled plasmas would be characterized mostly by the standard Debye-Hückel model. 8,9 In these weakly coupled plasmas, the average energy of interaction between plasma particles is known to be smaller than the average kinetic energy of a particle in plasmas. However, it is obvious that the physical processes in such strongly coupled plasmas would be quite different from those in weakly coupled classical plasmas. Moreover, the interest in strongly coupled plasmas has remarkably increased due to recent investigations on various physical properties of astrophysical compact objects and laser induced inertial confinement fusion plasmas. In addition, it has been shown that the interaction potential in strongly coupled semiclassical plasmas would not be represented by the conventional DebyeHückel model because of nonideal particle interactions due to collective and quantum effects. [10][11][12][13] However, the behavior of the Wannier threshold law for the double-electron escape in strongly coupled semiclassical plasmas has not been specifically investigated as yet. Thus, in this brief communication we investigate the quantum and plasma screening effects on the Wannier threshold law for the double-electron escape from the ion in strongly coupled semiclassical plasmas. The screened renormalized electron is obtained by using the screened pseudopotential model, 10 taking into account the quantum and correlation effects as a function of the de Broglie...