It is impossible for a nuclear power plant to undergo a nuclear chain reaction that results in an explosion of power comparable with a nuclear weapon, but even low-powered explosions due to uncontrolled chain reactions, that would be considered " fizzles " in a bomb, may still cause considerable damage and meltdown in a reactor.

What is required in Zimbabwe is democratic rule, democracy is lacking in the country and that is the major cause of this economic meltdown.

Before Luke can get more info out of R2, the droid has a meltdown, claiming he is protecting information.

Also located within the county is Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station, site of the 1979 nuclear core meltdown.

Continued fixation of deleterious alleles in small populations is called Muller's ratchet, and can lead to mutational meltdown.

According to Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, a former investigator with the CIA and the US Department of Energy, there is " a greater possibility of a nuclear meltdown in Pakistan than anywhere else in the world.

Nuclear meltdown is an informal term for a severe nuclear reactor accident that results in core damage from overheating.

A meltdown may be caused by a loss of coolant, loss of coolant pressure, or low coolant flow rate or be the result of a criticality excursion in which the reactor is operated at a power level that exceeds its design limits.

The title is a fanciful term — not intended to be taken literally — that describes a fictional worst-case result of a nuclear meltdown, where reactor components melt through their containment structures and into the underlying earth, " all the way to China " ( see China Syndrome ).

The player is given the clear objective to find and destroy each mine's reactor core and escape before the mine is destroyed by the meltdown.

Right in the middle of the games, the plant is detonated as part of an intentional nuclear meltdown.

It is Corwood Industries (# 0754 ), and is the first album by the " blues rock " band that followed the apparent meltdown of the original " garage rock " band.

Truman seeks to get away from Seahaven but is blocked by the inability to arrange for flights, bus breakdowns, sudden masses of traffic, a forest fire, and an apparent nuclear meltdown.

* Gibson EDS-1275-McLaughlin played the Gibson doubleneck between 1971 and 1973, his first years with the Mahavishnu Orchestra ; this is the guitar which, amplified through a 100-watt Marshall amplifier " in meltdown mode ," produced the signature McLaughlin sound hailed by Guitar Player as one of the " 50 Greatest Tones of All Time.

" He continued, " The Edwards campaign is in total disarray and the meltdown will continue unless McEwan is removed from his staff.

The area around the plant is now abandoned by humans because of the large amount of radiation generated by the meltdown.

A population experiencing mutational meltdown is trapped in a downward spiral and will go extinct if the phenomenon lasts for some time.

Usually, the deleterious mutations would simply be selected away, but during mutational meltdown, the number of individuals thus suffering an early death is too large relative to overall population size so that mortality exceeds the birth rate.

The loss of her seat was considered the most high profile casualty of the Fianna Fáil meltdown.

Brennan said at his retirement that he considered it the most important case he'd ever decided ; conservative columnist David Frum once opined that the case was a major factor in New York City's 1975 budget meltdown.

As the dust settled around Ontario Hydro's corporate meltdown, some reflection on the complex politics and management at the hands of changing policies and governments has been used to temper the vilification of politically appointed executives, who find themselves over their heads in the midst of scandal on self-directed very high executive pay with extraordinary benefits, frivolous corporate expenditure and insolvency, and betrayal of public interest with failure of service.

Such a meter would not be expected to detect the presence of radiation except the very high levels that might be found in the event of a nuclear weapon detonation or a major release of radioactive material as from a nuclear reactor meltdown.

A nuclear meltdown refers to the more serious hazard of releasing nuclear material into the surrounding environment.

* 1997 – October 27, 1997 mini-crash: Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown.

Police were unsure of the motive but thought activism unlikely, a prank unlikely because theft was premeditated, and theft of the bronze for meltdown was unlikely because it was worth only about NZD $ 200.

The girls figure it was not the boys because there's no way they could've heard about Jade's meltdown at the mall.

Prince famously said about Citigroup's continued commitment to leveraged buy-out deals despite fears of reduced liquidity because of the occurring sub-prime meltdown :" As long as the music is playing, you ’ ve got to get up and dance.

His father, Waylon Smithers, Sr., worked for Burns until he died of radiation poisoning after saving Springfield from a potential nuclear meltdown when Waylon was a baby.

If such a limiting fault were to occur, and a complete failure of all ECCS divisions were to occur, both Kuan, et al and Haskin, et al describe six stages between the start of the limiting fault ( the loss of cooling ) and the potential escape of molten corium into the containment ( a so-called " full meltdown "):

A meltdown could however occur if the ability to cool the core was lost.

The Combine, however, attempt to accelerate the meltdown to send a message to their native universe for reinforcements.

Three of the reactors at Fukushima I nuclear accidents | Fukushima I overheated, causing nuclear meltdown | meltdowns that eventually led to explosions, which released large amounts of radioactive material into the air.

Three of the reactors at Fukushima I nuclear accidents | Fukushima I overheated, causing nuclear meltdown | meltdowns that eventually led to explosions, which released large amounts of radioactive material into the air.

A test reactor built in an underground cavern suffered a loss-of-coolant accident during a startup, leading to a partial core meltdown and massive radioactive contamination of the cavern, which was then sealed.

On October 5, 1966 Fermi 1 suffered a partial fuel meltdown, although no radioactive material was released.

It was intended to operate until the end of 1969, but during a startup on January 21, 1969, it suffered a loss-of-coolant accident, leading to a partial core meltdown and massive radioactive contamination of the cavern, which was then sealed.

Soon after the initial start up, an undetected blockage in one of the cooling pipes led to a partial fuel meltdown and massive radioactive contamination of the underground site.

This resulted in partial or complete meltdown of fuel rods, damage to fuel storage pools and buildings, significant release of radioactive debris to surrounding area, air and sea, and resorting to the use of fire engines and concrete pumps to deliver cooling water to spent fuel pools and containments.

In Game 5, faced with seeing another meltdown, the Spurs looked toward Manu Ginóbili, who took over with a game high 39 points in leading the Spurs to a solid 103 – 90 win.

More scenarios added with the SCURK included a nuclear meltdown in Manhattan in 2007.

* Manhattan: Manhattan's efficient nuclear power station has a major meltdown in October 2007, sweeping the city with chemical fires and radiation.

In preparation to the band's official reunion show, Rhodes suffered a meltdown due to his ongoing battle with alcohol.

" He oversaw emergency response efforts to the partial meltdown at the nuclear power plant and also had a major role in coordinating funding for cleanup efforts. Governor Thornburgh ( center ) with Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger ( right ) and Delaware Lt.

Due to his encounter with the Super X III, Godzilla will not explode but will instead suffer a bodily meltdown.

Overcome by the attack and the extreme heat from Godzilla's meltdown, Destoroyah tries to fly away, but the JSDF shoots it down with a number of freeze weapons designed to work against Godzilla.

Moments later, Godzilla starts to die from the meltdown, but the JSDF are able to sustain him momentarily with the freeze weapons.

He stated that " I have now come to the conclusion that China in June 1989 was faced with a situation that could have evolved into a political meltdown ; a Bosnia of gigantic proportions, and the risk of a new great war in the Pacific area.

According to Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, a former investigator with the CIA and the US department of energy there is " a greater possibility of a nuclear meltdown in Pakistan than anywhere else in the world.

After arguing with Hans Olsen of Sports Radio 1280 The Zone, he had an on air meltdown where he claimed that he was going to choke Hans and repeatedly called him an idiot.

In the early 1970s, jazz-rock musician John McLaughlin played an EDS-1275 in his first years with the Mahavishnu Orchestra ; the guitar, amplified through a 100-watt Marshall amplifier " in meltdown mode ," produced the signature McLaughlin sound hailed by Guitar Player as one of the " 50 Greatest Tones of All Time.

In August 1978, with rumors of an impending meltdown at Abel swirling, Trumbull approached Paramount offering to step in and do the effects with partner Richard Yuricich.

The following night, with Denkinger behind home plate, the Cardinals suffered an epic meltdown, as ace pitcher John Tudor got off to a terrible start, giving up five earned runs and four walks in only innings.

" The Zone " is the location of an alternate reality version of the Zone of alienation surrounding the Chernobyl Power Plant after a second, fictitious meltdown, which further contaminated the surrounding area with radiation and caused strange otherworldly changes in local fauna, flora and the laws of physics.

The Three Mile Island accident exposed this design deficiency: the reactor and steam generator were " Off " but with loss of coolant it still suffered a partial meltdown.

The movie It ’ s All Gone Pete Tong was me in complete meltdown as I approached 40, and Strutter was my way of dealing with the initial horrors of sobriety.