meltdown

Words with a similar base: meltdown, nuclear_meltdown

'meltdown'

[meltdown.n.01] as in: severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping

'meltdown'

[meltdown.n.02] as in: a disaster comparable to a nuclear meltdown

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Examples:
there is little likelihood of a meltdown comparable to the American banking collapse in March 1933