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Definition of Nuclear meltdown
1. Noun. Severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nuclear Meltdown
Literary usage of Nuclear meltdown
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nuclear Waste Storage and Disposal Policy: Hearing Before the Committee on edited by Frank Murkowski (1999)
"Just 20 years ago, the nuclear power industry and its regulators, the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, officially viewed a "Class 9" nuclear meltdown as ..."
2. The Strategic Value of Fossil Fuels: Challenges and Responses : Conference by International Energy Agency (1996)
"The nuclear meltdown in Chernobyl will wreak as yet undetermined long-term
debilitating effects on civilians, livestock, and flora in the immediate region ..."
3. The Second Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment: Proceedings by Yusuf Pisan, SIGART. (2005)
"If these balls are not played skillfully and end up in the gutter too soon due
to bad flipper action, or if the game is tilted, a nuclear meltdown occurs ..."
4. Creating the New World: Stories & Images from the Dawn of the Atomic Age by Theodore Rockwell (2003)
"These tests were about as realistic a large-scale mock-up of various aspects of
a nuclear meltdown as one could build. The program demonstrated that "the ..."
5. The Artichoke Trail: A Guide to Vegetarian Restaurants, Organic Food Stores by James Bernard Frost (2000)
"... who come to visit either the state capital, the Hershey chocolate factory or
Three Mile Island - the infamous site of a partial nuclear meltdown. ..."
6. Preserving The Dnipro River: Harmony, History and Rehabilitation by Vasyl Yakovych Shevchuk (2005)
"... with the exception of iodine and strontium, settle very rapidly into the
riverbed sediments, which formed as far back as the nuclear meltdown in 1986. ..."
7. Preparing for the 21st Century: An Appraisal of U. S. Intelligence by Harold Brown, Warren B. Rudman (1996)
"... on threats to the world's environment, such as the dumping by the Soviets of
radioactive substances in the Arctic or the nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl. ..."
8. Long Road to Recovery; Community Responses to Industrial Disaster by James Kenneth Mitchell (1996)
"Such speculations included two reactor explosions at Chernobyl, mass graves for
thousands of victims, a nuclear meltdown, and similar stories. ..."
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