Meltdown

Noun

 * 1) Severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping.
 * Four years have passed since the meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, but the grim legacy of the Soviet catastrophe is still unfolding.
 * 1) A situation being likened to a nuclear meltdown; a crisis.
 * Computer engineers were at a loss last night to explain why the Government had been hit by arguably the worst electronic meltdown in the history of Whitehall.
 * 1)  A tantrum.

Derived terms

 * nuclear meltdown
 * market meltdown

Translations

 * Arabic: انصهار نووي
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 堆芯熔毀, 堆芯熔毁
 * Dutch: kernsmelting
 * Finnish: (reaktoriytimen) sulaminen
 * French: fusion du cœur d'un réacteur nucléaire
 * German: Kernschmelze
 * Greek: τήξη
 * Hindi: नाभिकीय गलाव
 * Finnish: (reaktoriytimen) sulaminen
 * French: fusion du cœur d'un réacteur nucléaire
 * German: Kernschmelze
 * Greek: τήξη
 * Hindi: नाभिकीय गलाव
 * Hindi: नाभिकीय गलाव


 * Japanese: 炉心熔融
 * Korean: 노심 용해
 * Persian: ذوب‌شدن سوخت هسته‌ای
 * Polish: stopienie rdzenia reaktora jądrowego
 * Portuguese: derretimento nuclear
 * Russian: разрушение из-за расплавления, расплавление, расплавление активной зоны ядерного реактора
 * Spanish: fusión de núcleo
 * Swedish: härdsmälta
 * Spanish: fusión de núcleo
 * Swedish: härdsmälta
 * Spanish: fusión de núcleo
 * Swedish: härdsmälta


 * Finnish:
 * Portuguese:


 * Russian: встряска

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