It is thus highly unlikely, though not impossible for a nuclear meltdown to occur.

PARIS The meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant has sent political aftershocks racing around the globe.

CAMBRIDGE Financial commentators have likened Japan s earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear catastrophe to derivatives role in the 2008 financial meltdown.

But when it comes to the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima, there is a common theme in the two events.

Capitalist Meltdown

Almost all of the thousands of Japanese victims were drowned by the tsunami wave, not wiped out by a nuclear meltdown.

Motor City Meltdown

Managing Syria s Meltdown

Morals and the Meltdown

If we compare this geographical distribution with a global snapshot of nuclear sites prior to the Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown in the United States in 1979, a striking correlation emerges between countries nuclear energy policy and their geopolitical standing and economic vigor.

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China Confronts the Global Meltdown

Melting Pot or Economic Meltdown

Learning from Australia s Political Meltdown

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The Middle East Meltdown and Global Risk

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Radiation remains a serious problem for residents in the area surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant since the plant suffered a meltdown following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.

PARIS The meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant has sent political aftershocks racing around the globe. More often than not, however, the shocks have been ideological, with no basis in science.

Edward Teller headed a group of young nuclear physicists in San Diego in the summer of 1956 to design a reactor which could not, by its design, suffer from a meltdown.

It is held culpable for the near financial meltdown.

The nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl 20 years ago this month, even more than my launch of perestroika, was perhaps the real cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union five years later.

MADRID Seen from Europe, the irrationality of the political and media discourse over nuclear energy has, if anything, increased and intensified in the year since the meltdown at Japan s Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

Obama inherited a terrible legacy recession, financial meltdown, Iraq, Afghanistan.

This asset meltdown is the reason for the likely recession.

CAMBRIDGE Financial meltdown has been averted in Europe for now.

NEW YORK The rich world s financial system is headed towards meltdown.

On April 26, 1986, a nuclear meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine caused radioactive material to be spewed into the atmosphere, exposing hundreds of thousands if not millions of people in Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, and elsewhere in Eastern Europe to extremely high doses of radiation.

And while there is moral hazard risk, there is also meltdown risk.

Last September, the world stood on the edge of a global financial meltdown.

ITHACA, NY The US financial system is careening on the edge of a meltdown.

There is the danger of a complete economic, social, and political meltdown in Greece.

If that meltdown is not averted, it could take down the rest of Europe.

PRINCETON In the middle of September s financial meltdown, a remarkable event occurred in London.

Fukushima is likely to stunt the appeal of nuclear power in a way similar to the accident at the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania in 1979, not to mention the far more severe meltdown of the Chernobyl reactor in 1986.

There may be light at the end of the tunnel no depression and financial meltdown.

In April 2010, about 18 months after the Lehman Brothers meltdown, the crisis seemed over.

A year ago, however, with the subprime mortgage meltdown of August 2007, I became certain.

This is why we ignore the silent meltdown in the North at our own peril.

Obama inherited messy and expensive wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and an economy in meltdown.

One hopes that the satellite footage of the Arctic meltdown will help to inspire serious action.

It successfully contributed to a coordinated fiscal and monetary stimulus, which helped avert a cyclical meltdown.

Such a statement would have been unthinkable in the years before the sub prime mortgage meltdown.

December 4, 2013 marked the thousandth day since a powerful earthquake triggered a tsunami that hit the island of Japan on March 11, 2011, killing more than 15,000 people, devastating parts of the country, and causing a nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

In fact, the global meltdown may turn out to be a blessing in disguise for industrial upgrading.