The phrase "a total meltdown of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a complete failure or breakdown of a system, process, or situation.
Example: "The project faced a total meltdown of communication, leading to missed deadlines and confusion among team members."
Alternatives: "a complete breakdown of" or "an utter collapse of".
If the cooling fails, the reactors could overheat and cause a total meltdown of the radioactive fuel rods in the core.
He also says the Republican administration's rescue efforts in 2008 weren't aimed at saving banks but at averting a "total meltdown" of the economy.
His consideration of such drastic measures arrived in the days following the collapse of Northern Rock in 2008, and the night before he announced his public bailout of the banks, fearing a "total meltdown of the financial system of the Western world".
Regardless, Windows Phone isn't going anywhere and barring a total meltdown of RIM it will probably be in the #4 spot in terms of handset adoption for most of the next few years.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke will spend as much as needed in an attempt to prevent a total meltdown of the banking system and the onset of Great Depression II.
We sit on the precipice of a total meltdown of one of the key economic backboners of this great nation.
After a slow start the Federal Reserve Board under Chairman Ben S. Bernanke has done an outstanding job containing the panic in the financial system and dispelling the fear of a total meltdown.
I headbanged so hard during Pre I felt like the soundsystem, which was literally smoking and on the verge of a total meltdown.
To cool fuel rods and spent fuel while stanching a total meltdown, responders pumped several hundred tons of seawater into three reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant.
I had a total meltdown, burst into tears in front of my adviser at a poster session and had to literally flee the building.
PARIS — Three months after Japan's worst earthquake of modern times, a total meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor appears to have been averted.
