Similar words: nuclear meltdown, melt, smelt, smelting, let down, get down, set down, cut down. Meaning: ['meltdaʊn] n. 1. severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping 2. a disaster comparable to a nuclear meltdown.
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31. What works best to prevent a meltdown at the checkout line or in a restaurant?
32. On Thursday, he warned of a second financial meltdown on the scale of 2008 if Europe doesn't take decisive action to recapitalize its banks and deal with the Greek debt crisis.
33. The quake was significantly less powerful than the one that hit Japan two weeks ago, causing a tsunami, leaving thousands dead or missing, and prompting fears of a nuclear meltdown.
34. Three and a half years later, Ice Age 2: The Meltdown is ready to hit theaters.
35. IF THE car business is in meltdown, things are only marginally better for truck manufacturers.
36. I understand why you had a meltdown , Li Hua.
37. When Reykjavik resident Inga Jessen lost her job following Iceland's economic meltdown, she set about building a website for cash-strapped visitors to the city.
38. A : Madrid? Sucked! You know Lisa and I had our long overdue meltdown.
39. Now the pebble bed reactor has the same basic safety features as a high temperature prismatic reactor in a sense that it has a meltdown free core.
40. The Enron meltdown has prompted legislative action, the Sarbanes - Oxley Act of 2002.
41. The US House of Representatives Monday passed a bill to create an independent commission to investigate the causes of the global financial meltdown,(sentencedict.com) AFP reported.
42. When the worldwide economic meltdown started, I naively thought the subsequent tightening of credit lines would at least make identity theft less of a problem than before.
43. It was during a Friday-night screening of Kubrick's classic, mind-warping sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odysseythat a man named "Robert" had a very public meltdown.
44. Somehow they found a less stressful setup than reactor meltdown.
45. Faced with this meltdown, government pumped billions of pounds, euros and dollars into their national banking sectors in a co-ordinated (see below) attempt to restore order.
46. Barring any market meltdown, I predict that one year from now AAPL will be at $550 or more, $650 by the end of 2012, and at least $850 by the end of 2013.
47. He successfully deactivated a nuclear reactor in a laboratory before meltdown.
48. Slide into a theater to watch Ice Age 2: The Meltdown this April.
49. A nuclear meltdown may yet lead to a financial one.
50. Experts have not ruled out the possibility of a complete meltdown.
51. Think she'll have a meltdown if she finds you living with a cat?
52. David Fox , head of the Indonesian bureau since January, was on temporary assignment to Japan last month to cover the aftermath of the earthquake(sentencedict.com), tsunami and nuclear meltdown.
53. Some compare Ireland's bank guarantee unfavourably with Iceland's decision, after a similar meltdown in October 2008, to let the banks go to the wall, creditors be damned.
54. At Three Mile Island, near Harrisburg, Pa., only a small amount of radiation was released before the meltdown was controlled.
55. The problem with a full meltdown is that it's usually the end result of a whole boatload of other chaos--explosions, fires, general destruction.
56. Japan , for example, remains bedridden almost 20 years after meltdown.
57. Some spying in the queue to the restrooms offered as good an indication as any. The coiffed, bejewelled visitors could speak of little other than Japan and their fears of a nuclear meltdown.
58. Health risks could include specific types of cancers, stillbirths and acute radiation syndrome if a full meltdown occurs, experts said.
59. Or perhaps the fear spreading plagueabout the nuclear meltdown in Japan slowly spreading globally?
60. Local doctors were barred from mentioning the meltdown in their diagnoses, to prevent "radiophobia" unhealthy fear of radiation.
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