meltdown

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) Severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and potentially in 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 or emotional outburst.
 * 2)  An autistic response to stress or sensory overload, in which the person is overwhelmed by intense, seemingly disproportionate emotions, behaving erratically and becoming unable to mask.
 * 3) * 2016, Laura, quoted in Wenn Lawson & Kirsty Dempster-Rivett, The Guide to Good Mental Health on the Autism Spectrum, page 26:
 * Now if I am really anxious, I can take a moment to think about what is making me anxious and what to do about it; before I would just spiral into a meltdown really quickly, with no understanding of why.
 * 1)  An autistic response to stress or sensory overload, in which the person is overwhelmed by intense, seemingly disproportionate emotions, behaving erratically and becoming unable to mask.
 * 2) * 2016, Laura, quoted in Wenn Lawson & Kirsty Dempster-Rivett, The Guide to Good Mental Health on the Autism Spectrum, page 26:
 * Now if I am really anxious, I can take a moment to think about what is making me anxious and what to do about it; before I would just spiral into a meltdown really quickly, with no understanding of why.

Synonyms

 * see Thesaurus:tantrum

Translations

 * Arabic: اِنْصِهَار نَوَوِيّ
 * Armenian: ռեակտորի միջուկի հալում, մելտդաուն
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 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 堆芯熔毀
 * Czech: roztavení reaktoru
 * Danish: nedsmeltning
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, reaktoriytimen sulaminen
 * French: fusion du cœur d'un réacteur nucléaire
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 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: नाभिकीय गलाव
 * Hungarian: zónaolvadás
 * Italian: fusione del nocciolo
 * Japanese: 炉心熔融, メルトダウン
 * Kazakh:
 * Korean: 노심 용해
 * Persian: ذوب‌شدن سوخت هسته‌ای
 * Polish: stopienie rdzenia reaktora jądrowego
 * Portuguese: derretimento nuclear
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: разруше́ние и́з-за расплавле́ния,, разруше́ние акти́вной зоны я́дерного реа́ктора,
 * Serbo-Croatian: taljenje jezgre
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 * Danish: nedsmeltning
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 * Serbo-Croatian: eratično stanje
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