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Meltdown logo #10101) Annual event in London 2) Comic book limited series 3) Music festival in London 4) Network 5) Nuclear meltdown 6) Nuclear reactor fear 7) Overheating 8) Rapid decline 9) Technology book 10) The China Syndrome threat
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Meltdown logo #10101) Thaw
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Meltdown logo #21000[Love and Death song] `Meltdown` is the third single from Between Here & Lost, the debut studio album from heavy metal band Love and Death. The song (along with `The Abandoning`) is to be remixed by Jasen Rauch in preparation for the September 24, 2013 re-release of Between Here & Lost as a `deluxe` edition containing a new song entitled `E...
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Meltdown logo #21000[book] Meltdown is a book on the global financial crisis of 2007–2008 by historian Thomas Woods, with a foreword by Rep. Ron Paul. The book was published on February 9, 2009 by Regnery Publishing. ==Overview== Woods is a follower of the Austrian School of economics and believes in allowing the market to freely compete in currency, which h...
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meltdown logo #21003(from the article `nuclear reactor`) ...during an accident in the United States in 1979 at Three Mile Island Unit 2, near Harrisburg, Pa. In this installation, a stoppage of core cooling ...
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meltdown logo #20973<radiobiology> In a fission reactor, if there is insufficient coolant or the fission chain reaction proceeds too rapidly, heat can build up in the reactor fuel, causing it to melt. In extreme cases the whole fission core can melt down to (or even through) the reactor floor. Fusion reactors are not vulnerable to this. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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meltdown logo #20974 noun a disaster comparable to a nuclear meltdown; `there is little likelihood of a meltdown comparable to the American banking collapse in March 1933`
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meltdown logo #21221The melting of the core of a nuclear reactor, due to overheating. To prevent such accidents all reactors have equipment intended to flood the core with water in an emergency. The reactor is housed in a strong containment vessel, designed to prevent radiation escaping into the atmosphere. The result of a meltdown would be an area radioactively conta...
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