Nuclear meltdown

Quality:

Nuclear meltdown - severe nuclear reactor accident that results in core damage from overheating. Article “Nuclear meltdown” in Simple English Wikipedia has 14 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in Polish Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Nuclear meltdown”, its content was written by 13 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1614 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 42 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1887 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #156 in March 2011
• Global: #15 in March 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #101 in March 2011
• Global: #12 in March 2011

There are 35 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Polish (pl) Stopienie rdzenia reaktora jądrowego		73.023
2	English (en) Nuclear meltdown		59.5162
3	Swedish (sv) Härdsmälta		48.261
4	Portuguese (pt) Derretimento nuclear		43.223
5	German (de) Kernschmelze		42.8432
6	French (fr) Fusion du cœur d'un réacteur nucléaire		39.2313
7	Italian (it) Meltdown nucleare		35.1707
8	Malay (ms) Peleburan nuklear		29.326
9	Finnish (fi) Sydämen sulamisonnettomuus		27.5331
10	Japanese (ja) 炉心溶融		26.3705

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Nuclear meltdown		5 546 892
2	Japanese (ja) 炉心溶融		4 836 822
3	German (de) Kernschmelze		2 273 731
4	French (fr) Fusion du cœur d'un réacteur nucléaire		578 494
5	Italian (it) Meltdown nucleare		376 102
6	Spanish (es) Fusión de núcleo		373 144
7	Dutch (nl) Kernsmelting		294 874
8	Chinese (zh) 堆芯熔毀		273 340
9	Swedish (sv) Härdsmälta		227 524
10	Polish (pl) Stopienie rdzenia reaktora jądrowego		189 221

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Nuclear meltdown		10 101
2	Japanese (ja) 炉心溶融		2 750
3	German (de) Kernschmelze		2 729
4	French (fr) Fusion du cœur d'un réacteur nucléaire		931
5	Italian (it) Meltdown nucleare		751
6	Chinese (zh) 堆芯熔毀		702
7	Russian (ru) Расплавление активной зоны ядерного реактора		418
8	Polish (pl) Stopienie rdzenia reaktora jądrowego		353
9	Spanish (es) Fusión de núcleo		340
10	Dutch (nl) Kernsmelting		272

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Nuclear meltdown		572
2	German (de) Kernschmelze		276
3	Japanese (ja) 炉心溶融		114
4	French (fr) Fusion du cœur d'un réacteur nucléaire		94
5	Dutch (nl) Kernsmelting		71
6	Italian (it) Meltdown nucleare		47
7	Danish (da) Kernenedsmeltning		42
8	Finnish (fi) Sydämen sulamisonnettomuus		39
9	Swedish (sv) Härdsmälta		36
10	Chinese (zh) 堆芯熔毀		36

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) انصهار نووي		2
2	English (en) Nuclear meltdown		1
3	Catalan (ca) Fusió de nucli		0
4	Czech (cs) Roztavení reaktoru		0
5	Danish (da) Kernenedsmeltning		0
6	German (de) Kernschmelze		0
7	Greek (el) Πυρηνική κατάρρευση		0
8	Spanish (es) Fusión de núcleo		0
9	Basque (eu) Nukleoaren fusio		0
10	Persian (fa) ذوب‌شدن سوخت هسته‌ای		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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