Sentence examples for experienced a meltdown from inspiring English sources

In the early days of nuclear power, the machines were billed by some proponents as idiot-proof; in fact, at Three Mile Island, which experienced a meltdown in March 1979, the plant might have done better had the operators done less.

On September 18th, the Bush Administration presented an outline of a bank bailout plan to Congressional leaders, but the damage had been done: the US economy had experienced a meltdown.

The United States will have to experience a meltdown not to advance: it has a five-goal differential over Canada.

Watching them is less like experiencing a meltdown, and more like hearing some delicious gossip about it long after the event.

At worst they will experience a meltdown like oil giant BP during the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, when the firm first ignored social media, and then saw its official Twitter account @BP_America mercilessly lampooned by the fake @BPGlobalPR.

She said his speech is limited and that he's prone to "experiencing a meltdown".

As a result of their miscalculation -- of their failure to include greed in their equation -- the world is experiencing a meltdown of major proportions.

Word has leaked that Karzai is experiencing a meltdown, believes the war is unwinnable and has gone behind America's back to try and strike a potential power-sharing arrangement with the Taliban.

One of the reactors, which had no containment dome to prevent radiation from leaking, experienced a partial meltdown in 1959.

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

Aleksei Vostrikov, a fictional character closely based on Nikolai Zatayev, the commander of a Soviet nuclear submarine that experienced a reactor meltdown during its 1961 maiden voyage.