The name (China Syndrome) refers to the idea of the nuclear material digging a proverbial hole to China, a practical impossibility. If radioactive slag reached the water table beneath the reactor building, the resulting steam could throw radioactive material into the air, producing fallout. Despite several meltdowns in both civilian and military reactors, such an extreme meltdown has never taken place. Almost all current reactor designs do not allow such a meltdown to occur, either by preventing any meltdown (such as in a TRIGA reactor) or by dispersing any molten material so that it cools and solidifies.Even if a reactor core were to melt, and the resultant slag penetrated the multiple layers of protection and were able to force its way downward, the furthest it would fall is to the center of the Earth. Once it passed this point gravity would act to pull the slag back towards the center, and not towards China. (source: wikipedia)

Pentru cine i’e lene sa citeasca mai sus, “China Syndrome” se refera la ipotetica posibilitate de a da o gaura prin pamant pana in China … se presupune ca suntem in partea opusa Chinei (pe glob).