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The first SOCAP conference took place in the middle of the meltdown a year ago.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said he was not ruling out the possibility of a meltdown at all three troubled reactors at the plant.

Furtel said a meltdown at a nuclear power plant does not always result in a massive release of radiation, as America's own history shows.

In time kreppa may become the word that conjures up the disastrous meltdown that is now taking place in the country's economy.

He said pumping seawater round the reactor as a coolant would take away the heat and stop any further core meltdown.

TEPCO cannot see whether these have been the site of any sort of meltdown, because there is too much debris piled on top.

Opponents of post-meltdown reforms to corporate governance are trying to hold back change by focusing on Washington.

It bears repeating that we have been struggling with a recession, a bank crisis, a real estate meltdown, and a technology shift.

But the left, which might have expected to have benefited from a capitalist meltdown, is no better off.

He said detection of the radioactive element caesium outside the No. 1 reactor today was "a bad sign" for a core meltdown.

At the very least, the risks that VaR measured did not include the biggest risk of all: the possibility of a financial meltdown.

However, the fuel apparently dropped to the bottom of the containment vessel, preventing it from going into a full meltdown stage.

As for Lehman, Mr. Paulson insisted that it was "a symptom and not a cause" of the financial meltdown that took place in recent weeks.

During that period it became clear that a partial meltdown had taken place in at least one of the six reactors.

Regulators now have a better idea of how much capital is needed to survive a meltdown.

So it's worth considering an alternative trajectory for the U. S. and China as another meltdown seems to be unfolding.

A year ago, Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse appeared to have avoided the worst damage from the meltdown in the US subprime mortgage market.

But Ms Conway says that people are suspicious, in a real meltdown, of whether their claim on gold held in an ETF would be honoured.

The judges' citation declared that she had been "consistently in front of the curve as the world's economy went into meltdown" .

And in an economic meltdown, the government - sort of like this new, less choosy daddy who has to marry a mommy that nobody wants.

The Spanish economy may be dangerously close to meltdown but one area at least - prostitution - appears to be doing very nicely.

Would it have been better to hear the impromptu ramblings of a nervous speaker in total cognitive meltdown?

Mr. Chu said he believed the accident was 'more serious' than the 1979 partial core meltdown at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania.

Markets continued to gyrate amid fears of a euro-zone meltdown and rumours of a political solution.

The costs of a meltdown would be too grave to contemplate. The members simply have to prevent that. They have no sane alternative.

But the question of why there is no meltdown in the chocolate business may be more a matter of psychology than economics.

She has steered Germany through the worst global financial meltdown since the Great Depression, keeping budgets down and confidence high.

It would still have to come up with much of that money or face a total political and economic meltdown.

UBS, the Swiss bank, this week said most of the $42bn the bank has lost as a result of the subprime meltdown was booked in the US.

After the biggest meltdown since the Great Depression, economic theory tells us that world commodity prices should not be this high.

How much time is there before a meltdown?

The countries argue that their banks did not need huge rescue from taxpayers' money during the financial meltdown.

Madrid? Sucked! You know Lisa and I had our long overdue meltdown.

But in a narrower corporate sense, the meltdown rivalled that of the banks.

otherwise, only a partial meltdown is possible and any melting will form in pellets under the water remaining in the reactor.

Investors have been through this sort of meltdown twice before in the modern era: Wall Street during the 1930s, and Japan in the 1990s.

For a long time the amount of capital required to withstand a genuine meltdown has been a near-complete unknown.

Personal wealth is dwindling in the U. S. , and the effects of the financial meltdown have been felt around the world.

on Saturday evening when the government assured the public that the explosion had not been caused by the meltdown of the reactor.

"We believe that the worst of the global meltdown risks are behind us, " she said.

"You just sat in your house with everything closed and wondering if there was going to be a meltdown or not, " recalled Taylor.

Prior to the financial meltdown, job growth averaged about 1% a year over the last three years whereas now it's falling by 4. 2%.

But you can't give it up entirely because to do so may not allow you to avoid, in extremis, a major meltdown.

The question now is whether the U. S. will re-evaluate its nuclear power plans in the wake of this latest meltdown.

This is one of several anecdotes in Mr Paulson's eagerly awaited account of capitalism's near-meltdown that have already been aired.

Step five would be the meltdown of the commercial property market, while step six would be bankruptcy of a large regional or national bank.

Previously, the utility had said there was a risk of a meltdown in the core after the quake cut off power to pumps providing cooling water.

She is increasingly skeptical in the face of a financial meltdown that it was all worth the effort.

The chances for a total meltdown at the pole are higher than ever because the layer of ice coating the sea is thinner than ever, he said.

BANKERS, frauds , predatory insurers: there has been a stampede to punish the villains of the global meltdown.

Governments' obsession about home ownership has contributed as much to the meltdown as any moustache-twirling financier.

And the plan does nothing to resolve the severe stress in money markets and interbank markets that are now close to a systemic meltdown.

The bill from the failed bank known as Icesave is one of the most lasting hangovers of Iceland's spectacular banking meltdown in late 2008.

Growers are also responding to the flow of investment capital into farming as a result of the global financial meltdown.

In total, it looks like the US government has placed a $55 billion bet on an industry that could meltdown thanks to the Fukushima incident.

This would have led to a crisis on its own, but it was hastened by the 2008 meltdown.

Planes might fall from the sky, supermarkets could conceivably run out of food and the banking system would go into meltdown.

The bank needed capital, true, but so did hundreds of other US banks during the financial meltdown.

Whether that means an uncontained meltdown was now out of the question -- or even less likely -- was not clear.

As the recession has deepened , meanwhile, bankruptcy filings are once more approaching 2005 levels, fuelling the credit card meltdown .

Merely setting the stage for a $100 billion bailout by the U. S. government and becoming the poster child of the meltdown.

Yet, while they are not objects of my sympathy, nonetheless they are not the "cause" of the current meltdown, despite Krugman's statements.

When President Roosevelt closed America's banks in March 1933 to try to halt a meltdown, the bank's overseas deposit base shrank by just 2%.

The most dangerous emissions in a meltdown enter the body through inhalation, ingestion or absorption through the skin.

That view is shared by OPEC, which has warned the global economic meltdown will depress oil consumption by at least one percent, this year.

Like the word "cancer, " the association of the words "nuclear" and "meltdown" strikes an emotional chord in people around the globe.

'What led to the subprime meltdown was a manic denial of good judgment because there were warning signs everywhere, ' says Mr. Bennis.

To avoid fiscal meltdown, public pensions and health-care provision will have to be reined back beverly and taxs may have to go up.

Spooked investors have moved back into the greenback amid fears that Europe's debt crisis could turn into a full-blown meltdown.

When the real estate meltdown buried GE's lending arm in bad debt a few years ago, its industrial units continued to grow.

In the case of nuclear energy, the Fukushima power plant meltdown was the latest catastrophe to scare us off.

China is right in thinking that the global meltdown is due partly to abuse of the dollar's reserve currency status by the United States.

In a report last month, Goldman Sachs said some foreign investors were positioning themselves for a "meltdown" .

I missed the details of the link between subprime loans, securitisation, special investment vehicles and a meltdown in money markets.

When the global financial meltdown began to bite, some commentators looked to the seemingly unstoppable export engine of China for relief.

They considered whether the financial markets could survive a meltdown of one of its largest firms.

We are thus now in a generalized panic mode and back to the risk of a systemic meltdown of the entire financial system.

Shortly after the meltdown at Three Mile Island, the U. S. nuclear industry began an ambitious overhaul of its safety practices.

But in terms of systemic risk and the risks of a financial meltdown, you almost have to go back that far to find a good analogy.

Therefore Beijing does have sufficient resources to prevent a systemic meltdown of the economy, at least in the short term.

"You see a massive potential for financial meltdown on a global scale, " said T. J. Marta, fixed-income strategist at RBC Capital Markets.

Third, governments in and out of the eurozone must prevent a banking meltdown.

The Bank of Japan's ultra-loose policy was brought in five years ago to avoid the risk of financial meltdown.

But the carmakers have been completely taken by surprise by the meltdown in the housing market and, above all, by the soaring cost of fuel.

The only thing that arouses more passion than the Wall Street meltdown is the presidential election.

Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown. By Simon Johnson and James Kwak.

Professors at business schools around the US have developed courses looking specifically at what caused the financial meltdown.

"It's undeniable that some of the fuel may have been deformed, but this is not a situation where the whole core suffers a meltdown. "

This will cause a meltdown, meaning the fuel rods melt to the bottom of the steel pressure vessel.

In October 2008, Tett assessed the British authorities' record in the face of the subsequent banking meltdown.

Set up in 1975 after a succession of oil crises, it is intended as a buffer against economic meltdown in times of national emergency.

The Democrats still look set to lose ground in the mid-term elections but the meltdown predicted only weeks ago is no longer a certainty.

eg: Meltdown is a term that describes the melting of a nuclear reactor core as a result of a nuclear accident.

First of all, a "meltdown" is not a precisely defined term, which makes it fairly useless as an indicator of what's going on.

It was the rural sector that helped India sustain growth through the economic meltdown.

And Wall Street's meltdown raises the same questions as the crises of a decade ago: what will the direct effects on emerging markets be?

Never has such potential instability appeared with such a threat of general meltdown.

The European Union today unveiled draft legislation to toughen up the policing of financial institutions and avoid another banking meltdown.

That said, such a trading strategy would have avoided the 1929 meltdown while nicely capturing the subsequent upturn.

But you've never been known for speed, and in a meltdown minutes matter.

Qu Hongbin, economist at HSBC, said: "This is just a slowdown towards more sustainable growth, not a meltdown. "

B. , it was The most romantic thing. Who cares about plaque Or pretentious artists When your best friend's Having a meltdown?

The subprime disaster reinforced that reactive thinking can't avert a financial meltdown, and diversifying risk is still an imperfect art.

As a seasoned politician, he was also aware of the possible panic that would ensue should people come to believe a meltdown was imminent.

To avoid fiscal meltdown, public pensions and health-care provision will have to be reined back severly and taxs may have to go up.

The meltdown has also taken a more hidden toll, helping to push Mr. Fox and a handful of Wall Streeters over the edge.

Given his background, Carter had a firm grasp of the potential disaster that would ensue should a nuclear meltdown occur.

And "partial meltdown" was the case for three Japan reactors following the devastating earthquake and tsunami in March.

That was before news of an explosion, and warnings of a possible "meltdown" , at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

On the contrary, it could be the only thing that saves us from complete and total economic meltdown.

Regulators and business leaders continue to try to figure out how decision-makers' missteps may have triggered the economic meltdown.

By Thursday a run on money market funds was in full swing and we came as close to a meltdown as at any time since the 1930s.

The European Commission's May economic sentiment indicator recorded its sharpest fall since the aftermath of the 2008 financial meltdown.

As in rich countries, the state's role in many poor ones has increased as a result of the recent global meltdown.

And that's exactly what happened in the run-up to the global financial meltdown that began in 2007.

As economists and market watchers cast about for people to blame for the U. S. market meltdown, Li has surfaced as a scapegoat.

However, if China really is heading towards a meltdown, the PBoC's efforts will not do much to slow the dangerous momentum.

These plans were postponed after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers last September led to a meltdown in the financial markets.

Many commentators have noted that the Wall Street meltdown marks the end of the Reagan era.

The elimination of a financial system collapse would go a long way in easing investors concerns over a global meltdown.

Morgan Stanley closed most of its prop trading units after experiencing heavy losses as a result of the mortgage meltdown in 2008.

As China's biggest export market, the last thing Chinese leaders want is a full blown financial meltdown in Europe.

The U. S. housing meltdown and Europe's debt crisis are pushing exporters to diversify beyond slow-growing advanced economies.

Mr. Chan, who'll graduate in December into the worst financial-sector meltdown in recent history, is now perusing IT job ads.

A meltdown occurs when nuclear fuel rods cannot be cooled, thus melting the reactor core and causing a release of radioactivity.

One clear lesson of the AIG meltdown is that a financial services company should not be allowed to choose its own regulator, as AIG did.

Cho Yoon-sun, a GNP spokeswoman, says Wall Street's meltdown should give the president pause in his privatisation plans.

In a partial meltdown, only some of the fuel or the reactor core melts, reducing the likelihood of breaching the containment structure.

It was the discounts offered to get this stock moving that caused the financial meltdown.

POLICYMAKERS in Washington and London have been losing sleep over the risks of financial meltdown and recession.

So the "price" for avoiding deflation may be a bond market meltdown, your quintessential financial crisis.

That said, there is one scenario that could produce a 1930s-style deflationary depression in the US: a large-scale financial meltdown.

Should such an event happen today, it would cause utter chaos and could well precipitate an economic meltdown.

Fears that high-frequency trading could spark the next market meltdown are unfounded, Bradley and other speakers at the summit said.

Cesium-137, with a half-life of 30 years, is another dangerous substance emitted in a full-scale nuclear meltdown.

The administration did, after all, avert the threat of a complete meltdown of the banking industry.

David Dodge, Bank of Canada governor, warned last week that a meltdown of the highly-leveraged trusts could hit assets worth up to C$250bn.

Its creator, a blind mathematician named Jim Miekka, said his indicator is now predicting a market meltdown in September.

The United States hasn't had a meltdown since at any of its more than 100 reactors.

"We're looking at a retail meltdown much worse than anyone could have imagined six months ago, " Beemer said.

The levels were not unsafe, but may have provided more evidence that a partial meltdown had occurred in at least one reactor.

In the event of a complete meltdown, the still-burning hot nuclear fuel could drip to the floor of the reactor.

There, the pornographic film industry is already suffering through a home entertainment meltdown.

"Despite record corporate bankruptcies, weak economies and a market meltdown, banks are generally safe" was Prof Persaud's conclusion.

Goldman has weathered the mortgage meltdown better than many rivals; it holds about $111 billion in cash and cash-equivalent securities.

But they failed to reach consensus on what's going to spur job growth and prevent another global economic meltdown.

And shares are off 78% from their pre-meltdown high -- no wonder the Fed recently nixed the bank's plans to restore a dividend program.

America's subprime meltdown is not, it seems, the best advertisement for unfettered finance elsewhere.

That scenario has sent investors fleeing to the few investment instruments seen as still reliable should there be a huge worldwide meltdown.

The lights, the smells, the textures, the sounds, and the tastes might throw me into a meltdown.

And I'm not just talking about the decimation of university endowments by the current financial meltdown.

We avoided a near depression and financial sector meltdown with a massive monetary, fiscal stimulus and bank bail-outs.

In the wake of the Wall Street and banking meltdown, many investment banking careers are endangered.

A near-meltdown at Three Mile Island in 1979 was followed seven years later by an explosion at Chernobyl in Ukraine.

Goldman Sachs says some foreign investors are already positioning themselves for a "meltdown" .

Investors and analysts worry about a financial meltdown like the one that slammed the US and other developed nations.

They range from exchange rates to Iran's nuclear programme, and indeed to co-operation in the event of a North Korean meltdown.

That plan was abandoned, given the Wall Street meltdown, and the candidates spent the first half of the debate on the economy.

Yet it is extremely difficult for the authorities to judge which blows the system can endure and which might trigger a meltdown.

At Three Mile Island, near Harrisburg, Pa. , only a small amount of radiation was released before the meltdown was controlled.

"I'm a market-oriented guy, but not when I'm faced with the prospect of a global meltdown, " Bush said in a speech in New York.

During the financial crisis, only energetic arm-twisting and deep-pocketed IMF and EU support averted a meltdown of the economy.

A decade ago, as a Treasury under-secretary, he helped orchestrate the successful response to the Asian financial meltdown.

It was a landmark moment, suggesting a meltdown of the financial system has been avoided.

The incident deals with a nuclear reactor meltdown, but there is no nuclear reactor on the island.

The list indicates that China's wealthy have been buffered from the global financial meltdown, which has tycoons in other countries reeling.

At home, the financial meltdown and imminent deep recession have exposed massive policy, regulatory, and enforcement failures.

They are forced out of their country by politics, which led to economic meltdown.

The last time polls briefly recorded Mr McCain in the lead were in September before the financial meltdown.

At the time, the world economic meltdown barely cast a shadow over the recruitment process.

I had a meltdown over my aspic and vowed to transform myself into a better human being.

Meanwhile, the problems in those states will put the entire region on the edge of an unprecedented meltdown.

Europe is facing nightmarish problems in its east. With help from the West, meltdown can be avoided.

But for now the priority is to prevent a systemic meltdown, not to accelerate it for the sake of principle.

Yet official attempts to stop the demographic meltdown have been faltering.

As the meltdown in Iceland last autumn showed, an economy can be overwhelmed by its banking system.

But in the area surrounding the Japanese facility, the effects of a full-blown meltdown would likely linger.

Japan's ambassador in Washington, Ichiro Fujisaki, acknowledged potential dangers, but said no complete nuclear meltdown appears imminent.

Even before the financial meltdown over the past month, car sales had begun to contract because of the recent spike in fuel prices.

The economy faces meltdown. Baluchistan is racked with a separatist insurgency.

In case of a complete meltdown, the fund should intervene to prevent the world economy from collapse.

Bernanke and Geithner went along, and none of them anticipated the meltdown that followed.

C. wanted Ursula to have a meltdown in front of the press, and I told her not to, so K. C. fired me.

And finally, we grouped a few containers into the "not formally tested but doesn't cause a nuclear meltdown when tried" category.

A full meltdown at the Japanese facility would still release radioactive gases, but those tend to dissipate in the atmosphere.

It was first carried out in July 2008, just weeks before Lehman's demise which sent the global financial system into near meltdown.

But there is something peculiar about this episode: it is the first meltdown in the era of broad consensus in economic policy.

The determination of authorities to avoid a meltdown is still powerful.

There is a real danger people are heading for meltdown unless we slow down and realise that there are only so many hours in the day.

Some economists and bankers "talk about a meltdown. Others see no problem at all, " she says.

The current global meltdown owes much to macroeconomic imbalances.

The biggest mistake we make is waiting until our kids are in full meltdown to deal with their out-of-control behavior.

Rapid economic growth may lead to an overexploitation of resources and eventually lead to a catastrophic financial meltdown.

Workers are fighting to prevent a nuclear meltdown, the death toll is rising, and energy and food shortages are rippling across the nation.

Business schools have been battered by criticism for the role they played in the global financial meltdown.

Credit Suisse, once an accident-prone rival, was enjoying a moment of glory after largely avoiding the subprime meltdown.

The speed and ferocity of the Lehman Brothers crisis brought the world to the brink of a meltdown.

The old game thus continues amidst financial meltdown and social problems that fuel simmering discontent and popular alienation.

Had the vote gone against the EFSF, a financial-market meltdown might well have been the result.

When the meltdown came in August, it was impossible to know if any of the belugas had survived.

Yet so far there are few signs that the country's political meltdown is having much effect on the economy or on the lives of ordinary Thais.

Here's a look at efforts to contain the damage and avert a potential nuclear meltdown. (all times and dates are local).

It's hard for me to keep my temper, even more so now with the global economic meltdown!

'I prefer not to speculate about the future, but as days go by, the risk of a total meltdown is reducing, ' Andrew said.

Hundreds of billions of euros had to be scraped together overnight to prevent a continental meltdown.

Early in the rally, the gains were fueled by the realization that the financial system and the economy would escape total meltdown.

The financial meltdown took a heavy toll on the global aviation business.

And "Irrational Exuberance's" Robert Shiller warns of a third meltdown coming.

The last thing Mr Obama needs before the 2012 presidential election is a global financial meltdown triggered by a Greek default.

They argue for the potential of a meltdown in Chinese economic activity.

Currently, Mr Chua heads The Straits Times' United States Bureau, covering politics and the recent economic meltdown.

The Chernobyl meltdown also contaminated vast tracts of Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and northern Europe with radioactive cesium.

This is all very well, many will respond, but what about the risks of a Greek-style meltdown?

Shaky home mortgages are triggering fears of a financial meltdown on Wall Street.

UBS vowed to improve its risk management and compliance procedures in the wake of its near-meltdown in the crisis.

Step nine would be a meltdown in the "shadow financial system" .

Now that the path toward meltdown has been averted, the significant problem of leaking radiation must be dealt with.

Experts have not ruled out the possibility of a complete meltdown.

Plus there is still financial meltdown potential in the system.

The premature euphoria of recent weeks owes more to relief at meltdown averted than to real evidence that recovery is under way.

The good news, I guess, is that we've been experiencing a sort of slow-motion meltdown, lacking in dramatic Black Fridays and such.

Why, we might sensibly ask, does the adult newspaper reader show these physiological responses to the threat of financial meltdown?

The September meltdown of much of Wall Street has put an unexpected focus on the candidates' grasp of the complex world of high finance .

But it was not a full meltdown: trading volumes were lighter than in recent days.

If a sudden subprime-style meltdown in the credit-card market is improbable, the risks of a sustained downturn are much more real.

Both main parties were caught on the hop by the banking crisis, soon followed by economic meltdown and fiscal catastrophe.

The natural disaster also triggered the meltdown of reactors at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture.

Japan security treaty, the root cause of the secrecy that fatally delayed the nuclear workers fight against meltdown.

Geithner projects a conviction that acting to arrest financial meltdown is not just necessary but right.

The early period of his 1998-2002 presidency was spent recovering from the meltdown of the Asian financial markets.

One engineer who has played a front-line role in helping cool the meltdown of Fukushima's three reactors spoke unwittingly to The Economist.

Proponents of cuts in greenhouse gases cited the meltdown as proof that human activities are propelling a slide toward climate calamity.

In fact, let's not call our wobbly progress from the brink of a global financial meltdown a "recovery. " Why?

If China is wrong, however, and a meltdown does occur, the risks are enormous.

The EU's biggest fear is that markets will cease financing Italy, causing a meltdown that Europe would be powerless to stop.

This "outsourcing, " according to Pat Buchanan and others, is a prime cause of the Wall Street meltdown.

But few believe anything short of a global-market meltdown will change the IPO plan.

The financial meltdown may be bad news for M. B. A. students, but it's good news, in part, for M. B. A. schools.

No one knows whether China's real estate market is headed for a meltdown.

Now, the main focus of ire is the private sector, which has been especially hard hit by the current economic meltdown.

Wang Hao suffered a meltdown in the championship final against South Korean Ryu Seung-min in the men's singles four years ago.

Though the accident was a type of core meltdown, theultimate nuclear power nightmare, U. S. experts also called it aburnup.

A partial meltdown can occur when radioactive fuel rods, which normally are covered in water, remain partially uncovered for too long.

Still, if the net result of this crisis- or-meltdown is that a generation of middle-aged men start living healthier lives, who cares?

After the distress of the economic meltdown, Obama represented a fresh start, with new energy, excitement, and hope.

's meltdown last September, was named the head of business development for commodities.

Tepco officials have been pumping seawater with boron in a last-ditch effort to bring temperatures down to prevent an outright meltdown.

Three reactor units at the Onagawa plant are being watched and controlled for radiation leaks and possible meltdown.

His clients and his book of business are directly impacted by the financial meltdown.

are explaining how they were compensated in the wake of the nation's mortgage meltdown.