Sentence examples for catastrophic meltdown from inspiring English sources

Despite 15 turnovers through three quarters, the Pacers were right in the game until their catastrophic meltdown in the fourth.

This makes it inherently unstable and vulnerable to the kind of catastrophic meltdown that threatened the banking industry.

My relatives are unharmed, but there are new fears of a catastrophic meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, just 30 miles away.

Raghuram Rajan, chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, presented a paper in 2005 warning of a "catastrophic meltdown" and was mocked as a "Luddite" by Mr. Summers.

"This failure can lead to the simple destruction of electronic components, or in power plant cooling applications, the catastrophic meltdown of a nuclear reactor".

JUST three years on from the catastrophic meltdown in March 2011 of three reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, Japan is taking steps to revive its nuclear dream.

Large areas of the world are becoming contaminated by long-lived nuclear elements secondary to catastrophic meltdowns: 40 percent of Europe from Chernobyl, and much of Japan.

A year after a huge earthquake and tsunami caused nearly catastrophic meltdowns at a nuclear plant, Japan is still grappling with the crucial question of whether the disaster was avoidable.

Caught Unprepared In the days after a giant tsunami knocked out Fukushima Daiichi's cooling system, the prime minister's office and the Tokyo Electric Power Company, or Tepco, the plant's operator, wrestled over whether to inject cooling seawater into the reactor buildings to prevent catastrophic meltdowns, and then over how to do it.

The company, called Tepco, made the admission — over a year and a half after catastrophic meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi — as part of a report in which it showcased internal changes as the government considers when to allow other reactors to resume operation, including those at Tepco's two undamaged nuclear plants.

TOKYO — A year after a huge earthquake and tsunami caused nearly catastrophic meltdowns at a nuclear plant, Japan is still grappling with a crucial question: was the accident simply the result of an unforeseeable natural disaster or something that could have been prevented?