worst case

“What’s key is the tremendous preparedness efforts that have been ongoing many days in advance of the storm ... have helped mitigate impacts — preventing some reasonable worst-case impacts from coming to fruition.”

The worst-case scenario - should Wales lose to Japan and drop to 13th in the rankings - would be coming out of the hat in a group made up of South Africa, Argentina and Tonga.

There’s a 30% chance of a worst-case scenario where downtown L.A. receives 4.81 inches of rain, producing mudflows and debris flows.

For people who spent their workdays watching the ups and downs of reactor pressure and heat, and making constant adjustments to keep things running safely, it was a worst-case scenario.

“I thought then, though not for the first time, that we were going to die. I thought we were really going to die. With no water coming in, the number 2 reactor was going to melt. All fuel was going to really override pressure in the containment vessel and escape outside. That would have been a worst-case accident.”