Preventing the other meltdown
By James Carroll | Monday, October 13, 2008 | The Boston Globe
“…The word ‘meltdown’ came naturally to the lips last week, referring to the collapse of financial markets. But what about a real meltdown? The word came into popular usage to describe the melting of fuel rods in a nuclear reactor, a result of out-of-control overheating, leading to a dangerous release of radiation. But before that, meltdown defined not the accident of a power plant but the purpose of a nuclear bomb – the liquefaction through intense heat of metal, glass, and everything else caught in an atomic blast. Meltdown is the point….”…BS
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