Sentence examples for a partial meltdown of from inspiring English sources

A partial meltdown of the core also occurred.

At the Fukushima Daiichi ("Number One") plant in northeastern Honshu, Japan, a loss of main and backup power after an earthquake and tsunami led to a partial meltdown of fuel rods in three reactors.

The 1979 accident at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania involved just one reactor, and though there was a partial meltdown of the nuclear fuel rods, the chamber holding them did not rupture.

After a partial meltdown of a breeder reactor owned by a utility company, Fermi, in October 1966, Mr. Shaw became an advocate for closer government control of such research and was a proponent of the Fast Flux Test Facility, which was built in Hanford, Wash., as a precursor to the Liquid Metal Breeder Reactor.

Despite the best efforts of the reactor operators and emergency responders, rising temperatures within each reactor's core eventually caused a partial meltdown of the fuel rods, a fire in the storage reactor, explosions in the outer containment buildings (caused by a buildup of hydrogen gas), the release of radioactive steam into the air, and the leakage of radioactive water into the ocean.

The troubles at the Fukushima complex have eclipsed Pennsylvania's 1979 crisis at Three Mile Island, when a partial meltdown raised fears of widespread radiation release, but is still well short of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, which killed at least 31 people with radiation sickness, raised long-term cancer rates, and spewed radiation across much of the northern hemisphere.

A partial meltdown in one of the light water reactors at Three Mile Island in 1979 resulted in the release of radioactive gases in the most serious incident in the history of the US nuclear power industry.

Ryohei Shiomi, one of Japan's nuclear officials, said that it was "highly possible" that there had been a partial meltdown in one of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant's reactors yesterday, and one may be imminent in another reactor.

The nuclear reactors at Fukushima experienced a partial meltdown causing the release of radiation, but killing no one.

Then, only weeks after the film was released, the nuclear plant at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania suffered a partial meltdown, allowing a small amount of radioactivity to escape into the atmosphere.

In 1977, a feedwater valve stuck and engineers were barely able to prevent a partial meltdown after more than 20 minutes of "complete confusion".