0 an extremely dangerous situation in a nuclear power station in which the nuclear fuel becomes very hot and melts through its container and escapes into the environment
1 a complete failure, especially in financial matters:
2 a dangerous accident in which the fuel melts in a nuclear reactor (= device that produces energy)
3 a situation in which an industry, economy, etc. is badly affected by a lot of problems within a short period of time:
Analysts were watching for signs of a meltdown following problems at three of Wall Street's major investment banks.
A deadly new computer virus caused much of the internet to go into meltdown last weekend.
a meltdown in sth A meltdown in the mortgage industry has made it more difficult to get a loan or to refinance.
a meltdown of sth The two officials are expected to help develop a plan to prevent a meltdown of the county's finances.
be in meltdown Since the credit crisis, the whole banking industry has been in meltdown.
Wanis has often spoken out publicly on television, radio and in print about celebrity narcissism and meltdowns.
They play against the meltdowns both at home and in exhibition bouts.
Three of the reactors quickly overheated, causing meltdowns that eventually led to explosions, which hurled large amounts of radioactive material into the air.
The final report warned of plane crashes and reactor meltdowns.
Compensating for the meltdown : the critical effective size of a population with deleterious and compensatory mutations.
However, lack of regulation and out-of-date legal framework led to crisis in the market leading to certain meltdowns.
However, the economic costs of nuclear power accidents is high, and meltdowns can take decades to clean up.
At the time, there was an excess of foreclosed houses on the market, following the financial meltdowns of 2008.
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核能, (核電廠核燃料的)熔毀, 失敗…
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核能, (核电站核燃料的)熔毁, 失败…
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başarısızlık, kontrolden çıkma, nükleer sızıntı…
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