meltdown
Noun
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Noun
meltdown (plural meltdowns)
- Severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping.
- Four years have passed since the meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, but the grim legacy of the Soviet catastrophe is still unfolding. [https://web.archive.org/web/20041130094534/http://www.time.com/time/daily/chernobyl/chernobyl.index.html]
- A situation being likened to a nuclear meltdown; a crisis.
- 2001, James Wickham, Perv Spoof Bosses Axe Wrestling (in The Daily Star)
- Channel 4 switchboards went into meltdown this week when viewers called to complain about a Brass Eye programme on child sex.
- Computer engineers were at a loss last night to explain why the Government had been hit by arguably the worst electronic meltdown in the history of Whitehall. [https://web.archive.org/web/20041209011615/http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=587262]
- 2001, James Wickham, Perv Spoof Bosses Axe Wrestling (in The Daily Star)
- (figuratively) A tantrum.
- (tantrum) see Thesaurus:tantrum
- French: fusion du cœur d'un réacteur nucléaire
- German: Kernschmelze
- Italian: fusione del nocciolo
- Portuguese: derretimento nuclear
- Russian: разруше́ние и́з-за расплавление
- Spanish: fusión de núcleo
- Portuguese: catástrofe
- Russian: встря́ска
- Spanish: escándalo, dilema, explosión
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