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Answer for the clue "Disastrous collapse — nuclear accident ", 8 letters:
meltdown

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" Meltdown " is a track from the soundtrack album The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack of the motion picture The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and is by Belgian artist Stromae . The song features additional vocals ...

Usage examples of meltdown.

Anton Murik had used as his personal cryptonym for Meltdown - Warlock.

All her senses heightened, working toward a fiery meltdown of anticipation.

If he could torment her into a first-class meltdown, she could make him frantic for her.

It was then that the Wisconsin glaciers, all at once, went into their ferocious meltdown, forcing a 350-foot rise in global sea levels amid scenes of unprecedented climatic and geological turmoil.

What better way to symbolize the troubled birth of the new world age of Leo than to depict its harbinger as a rampaging lion, particularly since the Age of Leo coincided with the final ferocious meltdown of the last Ice Age, during which huge numbers of animal species all over the earth were suddenly and violently rendered extinct.

Most of the biological danger of a reactor meltdown comes from alpha radiation emitted by particulate radioisotopes in the air or water.

Our daughter Joanna was consuming our lives, rolling from one meltdown to the other twenty-four hours a day.

Somehow, even now, when her skin had gone blotchy and her hair was falling out, when the chain reaction that was fast approaching meltdown raged in her flesh, she still kept their child safe.

So I see no reason why Meltdown cannot go ahead at twelve noon British Summer Time on Thursday, as planned.

If his suspicions were correct, Meltdown could mean only one terrifying thing.

Time passed slowly, and Bond occupied himself by working on the remaining pieces of the Meltdown puzzle should he not get through, it would be best to have some operational diagram in his head.

Whatever the governments of countries like Britain, the United States, France and Germany had said about never giving in to terrorist blackmail, Meltdown would present them with the gravest dilemma any country had yet faced.

The pieces of the Meltdown puzzle floated around in his head for most of the night.

Senator Daschle, whose anti-Bush rant on the Senate floor had been widely viewed as an unseemly meltdown, would soon be losing his job as majority leader.

Rove if he considered the California speech as bad as the Iowa meltdown ten months later.