UNDER a so-called Class 9, or worst-case meltdown scenario at Indian Point 3 reactor alone, the report estimated peak property damage at $314 billion, in 1982 dollars.
It's always a bit odd to hear that companies were informed of a major security flaw like this one months ago, as was the case with Meltdown and Spectre.
There were also tests at Dugway with other weapons of mass destruction, including 328 open-air tests of biological weapons, 74 dirty bomb tests, and eight furnace heatings of nuclear material under open air conditions to simulate the dispersal of fallout in the case of meltdown of aeronautic nuclear reactors.
Mr Merrin said: "Our services are already under a great deal of pressure both primary and secondary care and in some cases, near meltdown.
Environmentalists will tell you about the danger of nuclear fall-out in case of meltdowns at plants, but the very same green people will bash against wind turbines, coal mining, water harvesting, moon tides, chemical dangers, and just about everything produced by industrial industries today, or created by man's behavior.
In the case of AIG meltdown, the bond rating agencies gave investment grade ratings to trillions of dollars of mortgage backed securities (MBS).
An interesting case of invasional meltdown including alien mycorrhizal fungi, plants and aboveground dispersers has been recently documented (Nuñez et al. 2013).
Then on Friday, Citigroup and Bank of America — two of the great basket cases of the meltdown — reported outstanding numbers, too.
It's not hard to see in many cases of "public meltdown" what you're looking at is someone who got so far in that there was no way of stepping back or stepping away from it.
Some nuclear analysts have said that in a worst-case scenario, a meltdown at Indian Point could spread clouds of radiation to New York City and beyond, if the winds were right.
