Nuclear fuel removed from crippled Japan plant

The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima power plant on Monday began removing atomic fuel from inside a building housing one of the reactors that melted down in 2011.

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As tech giants race against the clock to fix major security flaws in microprocessors, many users are wondering what lurks behind unsettling names like "Spectre" or "Meltdown" and what can be done about this latest IT scare.

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Meltdown

Meltdown is a term generally referring to a nuclear meltdown or the melting of a nuclear-reactor core as a result of a serious nuclear accident.

The term has also been borrowed to describe the following:

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