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China Syndrome

noun

Definition of China Syndrome

: meltdown sense 1

First Known Use of China Syndrome

1970, in the meaning defined above

History and Etymology for China Syndrome

from the notion that the molten reactor contents could hypothetically sink through the earth to reach China

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