Sentences with phrase «complete reactor meltdown»

For context, a submarine assigned to Britain's Royal Navy narrowly avoided a complete reactor meltdown in 2012 after the power sources for its coolant system failed.

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Threats of explosions and dangerously high radiation doses are just some of the risks facing workers trying to avert complete meltdowns at multiple reactors in Japan

This was the reaction of Len Green, a spokesman for Nuclear Electric, to accusations that the company's nearly completed Sizewell B pressurised water reactor in Suffolk has a flaw that increases the likelihood of a meltdown.

Or believe it or not, there could have been a complete meltdown of several nuclear reactors in an earthquake and tsunami - hit region...