English-Portuguese translations for china syndrome

• síndrome da China
  Como se isso não bastasse, o reactor do tipo síndrome da China que é Wall Street sobreaqueceu e derreteu, enchendo-se de títulos tóxicos e de dívidas radioactivas. Then the China Syndrome-like reactor that is Wall Street suffered a meltdown and the system was suddenly full of toxic securities and radioactive debt.

Definition of china syndrome

• A hypothetical kind of catastrophic failure in which a nuclear reactor melts through the floor of its containment system and penetrates the Earth's surface, continuing downward as if traveling through the planet toward China
• A behavior, policy, or situation characteristic of or involving China; an actual or potential catastrophe, especially one involving China
• A rare disease, first characterized in the early 1990s, which resembles poliomyelitis but which has somewhat different characteristics and occurs in persons vaccinated for poliomyelitis

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