nuclear meltdown

1. 1.

   severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping

   Synonymsmeltdown

   Broaderoverheating

Questions about nuclear meltdown

What does nuclear meltdown mean?

nuclear meltdown means "severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping".

What is another word for nuclear meltdown?

Close synonyms include meltdown. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nuclear meltdown a common word?

nuclear meltdown is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.