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Twin limited personal failure (8)

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I believe the answer is:

meltdown

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'failure' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.

'twin limited personal' is the wordplay.
'twin' becomes 'me' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'limited' becomes 'ltd'.
'personal' becomes 'own' (eg one's own possessions are personal possessions).
'me'+'ltd'+'own'='MELTDOWN'

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(Other definitions for meltdown that I've seen before include "Disastrous event like overheating of nuclear reactor as in Chernobyl" , "Nuclear reactor accident" , "Serious nuclear accident" , "Total disaster" , "Disastrous overheating of core of nuclear reactor" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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