Sentence examples for partial meltdown from inspiring English sources

A partial meltdown of the core also occurred.

Three Mile Island containment did not burst with a partial meltdown.

In 1979, a partial meltdown occurred in Three Mile Island's Unit 2 reactor.

Tepco did not publicly acknowledge a partial meltdown in three reactors until May.

In the end the partial meltdown was contained and the damage was mostly economic.

Japanese officials have spoken of "partial meltdown" at some of the stricken reactors.

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

Experts and authorities played down the dangers of a Chernobyl-style disaster, saying they believed a partial meltdown was controllable.

Today we know that a partial meltdown had occurred and we were only hours away from an unprecedented nuclear cataclysm.

(Some plant workers, however, attributed at least one partial meltdown to coolant-pipe bursts caused by the earthquake's ground vibrations).

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