Sentence examples for facility meltdown from inspiring English sources
Watching the devastation first unfold in northern Japan from an unheard of triple whammy -- earthquake, tsunami, nuclear facility meltdown -- I was sad beyond belief.
During Beard's power plant raid in 1985, The Ghost Wolves are mostly wiped out as the facility enters meltdown.
They contend it is reckless to operate a nuclear plant in close proximity to America's largest metropolitan area and say chances are scant of evacuating the 20 million people who live within a 50 mile radius of the facility should a meltdown occur.
The aforementioned describes not the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon rig and the massive oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico but the transformative March 1979 accident at Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear facility on the Susquehanna River, a meltdown of a massive power reactor.
Two reactors at Japan's Sendai nuclear plant are set to become the first to be restarted since the 2011 meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear facility.
The accident was triggered when a powerful earthquake and tsunami hit the northeastern coast of Japan, knocking out the plant's electricity, which lead to the meltdown of three of the facility's six reactors.
But just such an extended loss of power contributed to the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear facilities.
Three of the plant's six reactors suffered core meltdowns, hydrogen explosions damaged the facility, and the release of radioactive plumes led to the evacuation of about 100,000 nearby residents, many of whom remain in temporary housing.
The facility's emergency generators were flooded, causing meltdowns in three reactors.
The core meltdowns at the Dai-ichi facility last March were not caused directly by the earthquake and tsunami which followed, but by the loss of power to the reactor cooling systems which made the nuclear fuel rods overheat.
In addition to numerous smaller incidents, the partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island facility (now operated by Exelon) in 1979 and the catastrophic meltdown at Chernobyl in 1986 remain two of the starkest reminders of the inherent dangers of nuclear energy.
