Sentence examples for To meltdown from inspiring English sources
noun
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.
Some are close to meltdown.
Electricity grids, water systems and telephone networks would be knocked out, while nuclear power plants would be subject to meltdown.
Last month Psy appeared close to meltdown when he tweeted a photo of himself in a recording studio, face buried in his hands, captioned: "pain of creation".
They were planning to meltdown nuclear power plants across the country, shoot down Air Force One and set off a nuclear missile.
On the podium there was hardly a dry British eye, with Glover visibly close to meltdown having helped break GB's golden duck.
In the worst case, experts say, workers could be forced to vacate the plant altogether, and the fuel rods in reactors and spent fuel pools would be left to meltdown, leading to much larger releases of radioactive materials.
The US Gross Domestic Product has yet to recover to pre-meltdown levels.
(Loss of those generators is what led to meltdowns at Fukushima).
Cooling systems to reactors were knocked out, leading to meltdowns and the release of radioactivity.
Waves knocked out cooling systems to the reactors, leading to meltdowns at three of them.
Waves knocked out cooling systems for the reactors, leading to meltdowns at three of them.
