core on the floor
noun Used to describe a situation when there's been a nuclear meltdown at a power generating facility. Derives from the state where the reactor core has fallen out of its protective shell (a critical situation).
It's a variation on the urban term four-on-the-floor.
It's a variation on the urban term four-on-the-floor.
Last we heard (and still being blacklisted by the international mass media), Fukushima was still going core on the floor.