发一篇CNN关于这次核泄漏的报道，周日的，已经有点过时 ...

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Workers scramble to cool reactors; official says 2nd blast possible
工人抢工冷却反应堆;官员说第二次爆炸还有可能发生

原帖地址：http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/13/japan.nuclear.reactors/index.html?iref=allsearch

(CNN) -- Workers continued efforts to cool down fuel rods inside two nuclear reactors Sunday as a Japanese government official warned that a second explosion could occur at the plant.

CNN 周日，工人继续尽最大努力冷却核反应堆的燃料棒，有日本政府官员警告说，核电站可能还会发生第二次爆炸。

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said an explosion could take place in the building housing the No. 3 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in northeastern Japan.

内阁官房长官枝野幸男表示，位于日本东北部福岛核电站的3号反应堆也有可能会发生一起爆炸。

"There is a possibility that the third reactor may have hydrogen gas that is accumulating in the reactor (that) may potentially cause an explosion," he said.

他说：“有可能第三个反应堆会由于氢气在反应堆的不断积聚而造成一场爆炸，”

An explosion caused by hydrogen buildup Saturday blew the roof off a concrete building housing the plant's No. 1 reactor, but the reactor and its containment system were not damaged in the explosion.

星期六的氢气积聚造成的爆炸炸毁了核电​​厂1号反应堆的屋顶，但反应堆及其控制系统并没有在爆炸中受损。

Edano said the No. 3 reactor would also likely withstand a similar blast, noting that workers had already released gas from the building to try to prevent an explosion.

枝野幸男说，3号反应堆也将可能承受类似的爆炸，并指出，那里的工人已经从内部释放出蒸气，试着防止发生爆炸。

Workers have been scrambling to cool off fuel rods at both reactors after a massive earthquake and tsunami disabled their cooling systems. Japanese authorities have said there is a "possibility" that a meltdown has occurred in the reactors.

大地震和海啸摧毁了冷却系统，工人们一直抢工冷却两个反应堆的燃料棒。日本当局说，有“可能”，反应堆核芯会发生彻底融化。

Explosion at Japanese nuclear plant A meltdown is a catastrophic failure of the reactor core, with a potential for widespread radiation release.

日本核电厂反应堆堆芯的熔化爆炸会造成灾难性的后果，并极有可能造成大范围的核辐射。

But Japanese officials stressed that there were no indications of dangerously high radiation levels in the atmosphere around the two reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in northeastern Japan. They said they were unable to confirm whether a meltdown had occurred because they cannot get close enough to the reactors' cores.

但日本官员强调，福岛日本第一核电厂两个反应堆还没有显示出发生高辐射的迹象。他们说，因为无法足够接近反应堆的内核，所以不能确认危机是否发生。

"We are continuing to monitor the radiation, but it is under control," Edano told reporters.

枝野幸男对记者说：“我们将继续监测核辐射，但它在控制之中。”

Later Sunday, a spokesman for Japan's prime minister repeated that assertion and said he would not describe what was occurring in the reactors as a "meltdown."

周日晚些时候，日本首相发言人（内阁官防副长官四方敬之）再次表示并且断言，说他不认为反应堆现在的泄露是“熔毁”。

"The situation is under control. ....We have been succeeding in lowering pressure inside the containment vessel," spokesman Noriyuki Shikata said.

他说：“我们一直在成功降低安全壳内的压力容器，目前情况已经得到控制。”

Edano said doctors were examining nine people who tested positive for high radiation levels on their skin and clothing.

枝野幸男表示，医生正在检查九个人皮肤和衣服上的辐射量，他们曾参与测试核反应堆的辐射水平。

Meanwhile, he said authorities were responding under the presumption that meltdowns had taken place in both reactors.

同时，他说，（如果）两个反应堆核芯熔毁当局也会有所对策。

Workers were pumping seawater into the reactors in what one expert described as an "act of desperation" to cool them down.

工人们在为反应堆注入海水以此来冷却它，一位专家称此为“绝望的行为”。

As official information about the crisis trickled out, scientists and experts around the world weighed in on the situation, offering a wide range of interpretations of the events and their possible consequences.

随着这次危机的官方资料一点一滴地流出，世界各地的科学家和专家都在权衡此次状况，他们提供了一系列的事件以及其可能引起的广泛后果的解释。

Robert Alvarez, senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies and a former senior policy adviser to the U.S. secretary of energy, described the plan to use saltwater as "an act of desperation" by Japanese authorities, who seemed unable to deliver fresh water or plain water to cool the reactor and stabilize it.

能源部长，美国能源研究所的高级秘书学者，前高级政策顾问罗伯特 阿尔瓦雷斯，解释日本当局这次用海水灌注反应堆的“绝望的行为”的原因，似乎是因为已经无法输送淡水或纯海水来冷却反应堆或者稳定它。

If the effort to cool the nuclear fuel inside the reactor fails completely -- a scenario experts who have spoken to CNN say is unlikely -- the resulting release of radiation could cause enormous damage to the plant or release radiation into the atmosphere or water. That could lead to widespread cancer and other health problems, experts say.
专家说，如果冷却反应堆内的核燃料的努力完全失败（一位专家曾对CNN说这种情况不可能发生），那么释放的辐射可能会导致对厂区造成巨大损害或进入大气和水环境，这也许会导致癌症和其他普遍的健康问题。

Authorities have downplayed such a scenario, insisting the situation appears under control and that radiation levels in the air are dangerous. Still, as what they described as "a precaution," more than 200,000 people who live within 20 kilometers (12 miles) of the plant have been ordered to leave the area.

当局低估了这种情况，并坚持说局势受到控制，但是空气中已经出现的辐射量是危险的。不过正如他们所说的“预防措施”，电厂附近20公里（12英里）范围内的20万居民已被命令离开该地区。

"The bottom line is that we just don't know what's going to happen in the next couple of days and, frankly, neither do the people who run the system," added Dr. Ira Helfand, a member of the board of Physicians for Social Responsibility.

PSR智库董事会成员艾拉 海尔法德博士说，“未来几天内发生的事情我们谁也不能预知，坦白地说，这个系统现在谁也运行不了。”

”What we do know, he added, is that Japan's nuclear facilities are "way out of whack."

他补充说：”就我们所知，这次是日本的核设施出现了“失衡。”

While some analysts said Japanese officials had not informed the public quickly enough about the evolving crisis, Jay Lehr, science director at the Heartland Institute in Chicago, said he was "100% confident" that Japan would be able to solve the problems at its nuclear plants.

尽管一些分析家说日本官员向公众公布这次环境危机并不够迅速，芝加哥中心地带研究所所长吉 伦莱尔却说他有“百分之百的信心”，相信日本能解决这次核泄漏。


"Nobody builds better power plants than Japan, because they are the most seismically active country on earth. They are built to withstand this very earthquake," he said.

他说 “没人比日本人建的发电厂更好，因为日本是地球上地震最活跃的国家，在建造的时候，日本人就已经考虑如何承受大地震”。

"I am absolutely, 100% confident that they will be able to solve the existing problem of a meltdown, if it is occurring, that they will be able to totally eliminate the escape of any radiation," he said.

他说：“我绝对有百分之百的信心，他们将能够解决现这次危机，如果(核泄漏）发生，他们也将完全消除任何泄露的辐射，”。
Robert Apthorpe, a nuclear engineer who has been fielding questions about Japan's nuclear plant problems on Twitter, said Sunday that time is of the essence.

核工程师罗伯特 阿普瑟珀在推特微博上列举了日本核电站的难题，并说星期天是关键的时间点。

"We have to watch very carefully the next 24 to 48 hours. ... We're not out of the woods yet," he said.

他说：“未来24至48小时我们必须密切关注。...我们并没有摆脱困境，”。

The problems at the Daiichi plant began Friday, when the 8.9-magnitude quake that struck offshore forced the automatic shutdown of the plant's nuclear reactors and knocked out the main cooling system, according to the country's nuclear agency.

日本核机构认为福岛核泄露，始于周五8.9级的地震迫使电站的核反应堆自动关闭，并且地震震毁了主要的冷却系统。
A tsunami resulting from the quake then washed over the site, knocking out backup generators.

而地震引发的海啸又冲垮了电网，损坏了备用发电机。

（译者：核电站是系统配套工程，系统安全性同理于木桶效应，那个短板决定一切。配套系统损坏以至于断电后无法冷却，而且即使地震和海啸发生也不应该断电，因为核电站电力供应属于军工最高级，优先级最高，完全和民用分开。

发生事故后东京电力没有第一时间停止反应堆，没电又无法冷却导致燃棒干烧24小时，燃料棒上方又没有近千吨的冷却水，这个在其他国家核电站包括我国所有的核电站都有的。最后电厂工人含泪释放带有辐射的蒸汽，氢气爆炸，现在没人知道炉心到底什么状况，这些小概率事件在设计反应堆的时候都必须考虑到的，日本运气好运行40年，报应来了，炉心熔毁2个，6个出现冷却系统故障，天灾加人祸，主要是人祸，IAEA说日本肯定是瞒报了安全等级的。

CNN也在不实报道，这次事件其实严重的多，越翻越有意思。）

The reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant are boiling-water reactors. The reactor affected by Saturday's explosion is Fukushima Daiichi 1. It was connected to the grid in November 1970, making it about 40 years old.

福岛核电站的反应堆是沸水反应堆，周六的爆炸发生于1号机组。它于1970年11月并入电网，已经运行40年了。

The No. 1 unit is the oldest of six reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi site, according to the World Nuclear Association.

据WNA世界核协会称，1号机组是福岛核电站六个反应堆中历史最悠久的。

Japan is heavily dependent on nuclear power, with 54 plants and another eight slated for construction, said Aileen Mioko Smith of Green Action, an environmental group. All are located in "very seismic" areas, she said.

一位绿色环保组织成员艾琳 美央子 史密斯（译者吐槽：还专门BAIDU她，能查到这个人的博客）说，日本是严重依赖核电的国家，计有54个核电站和另外在建的八个，它们全部坐落在地震带上。

Authorities have also detected cooling system problems at another nuclear facility in Fukushima Prefecture, the Fukushima Daini plant, but have not expressed any concerns about possible meltdowns there.


当局还发现另一个福岛核电站的冷却系统也有问题，但没有表示会有可能发生融化。

Edano said that there have not been any leaks of radioactive material at either of the affected plants. Authorities deliberately have let out radioactive steam in order to alleviate growing pressure inside both of the affected reactors.

枝野幸男说受地震影响的机组没有任何核辐射泄露的迹象。当局命令施放有放射性的蒸汽，以缓解日益受影响的反应堆压力。


CNN's Tom Watkins and Greg Botelho contributed to this report.

CNN汤姆 沃特金斯和格雷格 博特尔报道。
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saihong

Why is this guy Bill Nye providing "expert" commentary on this? Couldn't CNN get anyone more credentialled? The guy is a comedian, former Disney tv presenter and environmentalist. What about hearing from someone who is actually an expert in modern day nuclear power generation or someone from one of the monitoring agencies? CNN surely you can do better. Viewers want "expert" opinion on such grave matters....not punters

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为什么BILL NYE比尔 奈伊这家伙能提供“专家”的评论？（译者：美国版郑渊洁，儿童科普文学作者，前波音工程师）CNN还能不能再有点公信力？这家伙就是一个喜剧演员，前迪斯尼电视节目主持人和环保人士。从一个真正的核能专家或者监督机构人士口中听来的不比这个强？ CNN你能不能干啊，大家要的是真正的“专家”对这个严重问题的意见。

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RmpleShatNut

enviro-mental-ist

环保-精神病-学家

artitude

i think that's spelled enviroNmentalist RmpleShatNut.

回复RmpleShatNUT,我认为应该拼成环保-心灵感应者。

wallofchina

That is just too good to be true, Bill Nye the Science Guy!?!?! God I love CNN

比尔 奈伊是科学家？如果是真的就太好了，老天爷我爱CNN。

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MvK2010

I'm going to be the anti-thesis here and tell everyone to listen to the japanese government. There's no need to cause widespread panic just yet, there has been no explosion of the core itself.

How it works; a meltdown occurs when the core attains "critical mass" - which means that the nuclear chain reaction inside the core has gone out of control and cannot be stopped. At that moment, if there is any remaining coolant (water) inside the core, or water is added to the core when it happens, the water will be dissected into hydrogen and oxygen due to the intense heat produced by a meltdown. This could cause a large explosion, ejecting the core's mass into the outside world. There's your chernobyl disaster.

That has not happened yet. The explosion we had seen earlier was the pressure relief system blowing up. They opened the valve too quickly which caused a hydrogen explosion. The stability or structure of the core was not compromised.

If the core is dry during meltdown, it will melt itself until there is simply nothing left. The dome which it is placed in and the building itself should contain the vast majority of the radiation leakage, and only a minimal amount will leak to the outside world - though, enough to cause some damage to the surroundings -directly outside- of the plant - BUT NO FURTHER.

If the core itself blows up, then it's time to asses the wind direction and evacuate everyone in the vicinity (atleast a 40 mile radius), especially in the area where the clouds are going to be blowing. Prematurely evacuating everyone would put stress on the relief effort which is intended to help the victims that were directly affected by the quake itself, furthermore, it would cause unnessecary panic.

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我持相反的论调并且告诉大家应该听日本政府的。目前还没有必要造成大范围的恐慌，反应堆的核心并没有爆炸。

这个原理是这样的，如果要爆炸，那就是当反应堆核心达到临界点的时候，这意味着核反应链失控并且无法阻止。如果这个时候核芯里还有剩余的冷却剂（水），或者还再加水，那么核芯熔毁产生的热量会把水分解为氢气和氧气，这就会导致大爆炸，把核芯的所有东西都喷射到外部，就像切额诺贝利(译者，这个才是正确的名称）的事故一样。

这些还都没发生，目前我们看到的爆炸是减压系统炸毁了，他们打开阀门过快造成了氢气爆炸，而核芯结构的稳定性并没有被破坏。

如果当核芯融化的时候是干燥的，它仅仅是融化而已，直到融的一无所有。而它被建筑物隔离的大量的放射性物质只会少量泄露到外部世界，也就是电站周围而已，不会再远了。

如果核芯爆炸的话，那么该地区（至少40英里半径）（译者:大约65公里），特别是云层风向所及之处的人都要被疏散。过早的疏散会对救援地震幸存者的行动带来压力，此外，会引起不必要的恐慌。

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TheBossIsOut

Charlie Sheen must be pis$ed that he's losing attention in the news media over all this.

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查理辛会因此事失去媒体的关注而感到愤怒。

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1 ovipconsult

I'm always wondering what happened to New Zealand, and they give me Charlie Sheen. At least CNN is giving me real news from Japan. Cut that guy out!

俺想知道新西兰都发生了什么，而媒体却播查理辛的消息，至少这次CNN让俺知道日本的真实新闻，不要再报道那个家伙了。

2 srh1177
He knows it will be back on him in a week or two.

他知道一周或者两周后媒体还会再关注他的。

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herculez

The number of stupid people who chime in on these comment boards is amazing! "Never build a nuc reactor again" ... are you a complete idiot?? "Use solar and wind" ... you're a bigger idiot! And someone compared this to Chernobyl... haha... you might want to do some research before you open your mouth. This isn't even close to the same type of event. In Chernobyl, the reactor vessel was exposed, components of which caught fire. Nuclear power remains one of the safest and cleanest power sources we have developed for mass use.

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这些评论版上的傻瓜数量实在多的惊人！”永远不要在建电站“，你是个白痴么？”用太阳能或者风能“。。。大傻蛋！！还有些人拿这个和切额诺贝利的事情比。。。哈哈。。。张嘴之前真应该研究下，两起事件完全不是一个类型的。在切额诺贝利，部分核芯起火，反应堆安全壳被暴露在外了。核能依旧是目前大量开发的能源中最安全和最干净的一个。


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Wzrd1

Actually, Chernobyl didn't USE a containment vessel at all, hence their ENTIRE problem.

事实上，切额诺贝利只是部分使用了安全壳，于是造成了整个问题。

artitude

no we aren't idiots. Environmental biologists aren't idiots. This s88t aint safe.

不，我们都不是傻瓜。环境生物学家也都不是傻瓜。这s88t也是不安全的。



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1stAmed75

A great people and society.....i would gladly trade one japanese for all the muslims in the world......The japanese are and asset to humanity...

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一个伟大的人民和社会.....我会很高兴地拿一个日本人换世界上所有的MSL......日本人是人类的财富...

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dabambz

Same goes for one bigotted american

有人成为最白痴的美国人喽。(译者：19人喜欢这句）

Wzrd1
It's a shame that YOU are not an asset to humanity, you just couldn't get the last two letters to become an ASSet.

这是一个羞耻，你不是人类的财富，财富ASSET这个词去掉后面2个字母，ASS屁股，就是你。

Serafinna

i would gladly trade you for a pig!

俺很愿意拿你换头猪。

Maromi

People like you are why a lot of countries hate America.

那么多国家会恨美国就是因为有像你这样的人。

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Dragonverse

Please make sure you verify your facts before airing them! Your 'science guy' is in error concerning Cesium. Cesium is NOT used to control the nuclear reaction, Boron and Hafnium control rods are. Cesium is a byproduct of nuclear fission and if found in the coolant is indicative of a fuel element failure - what the uninitiated refer to as a partial meltdown. The hydrogen explosion is a result of a reaction of the Zirconium cladding of the fuel with water - something that happens only at extremely high temperatures - another indication of a possible fuel element failure. Boron pumped into the core will poison the nuclear reaction but it will not cool the core which is the primary focus of all activity at this moment. I should know - I am a nuclear plant worker.

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播出之前请验证到底什么是事实。你们这些“科学佬”提及铯时犯了个错。铯不是用来控制核反应堆的，硼和铪才是控制棒。铯是核裂变的副产品，如果在冷却剂中发现硼那表明是控制液的元件故障，而不是什么门外汉所说的部分融化。氢气爆炸是因为水和控制液还有它的锆包层发生反应，而这种情况只会在极其高温的时候才会发生，这也表明了控制液元件故障的可能。硼注入核芯会污染反应堆但不会降温，这才是此刻关注的焦点。俺知道这些是因为俺是个核电站工人。

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xordon

problem is scale deposition when too much inorganix substance touches hot core...it will insulate the core even more...and will heat it up faster ...leading to more unstable core..who will clear the scales?

问题是太多的无机物接触热核芯造成了沉积物质。。。这会使核芯被隔离。。。然后热的更快。。。导致核芯更加不稳定。。。谁能清理这些沉积物。。。

MvK2010

Considering that they've been trying to cool the core for a long time now, does it mean that the scram and poison injection failed / didn't have enough effect? Too many delayed neutrons?

Are there any other ways besides these two to stop a chain reaction?

Thanks for clearing that up by the way.

考虑到他们现在一直长时间地试图冷却核芯，是否意味着紧急中止和控制物注入失败或者没起作用？中子反应太迟了？

除了这两种办法是否有任何其他方法来阻止连锁反应？

谢谢你，澄清上面的事实。

artitude


Let's just hope that this "safe" s888t won't blow up and release radiation. Yesterday i saw a theoretical physicist on TV say "Thank God" the first explosion was a steam explosion. Now when such people have to go on TV and say "Thank God", that implies they have pretty much no control on what's happening there. Nuclear physicists, my a88...why don't they friggin get new jobs? They are intelligent enough anyways。


咱们只能希望这个“安全”的S888T不会爆炸和核辐射泄露。昨天俺看见电视上一个物理学家说“感谢帝哥”，第一次爆炸只是个蒸汽爆炸。现在当这些人再上电视的时候说“感谢帝哥”，这意味着他们几乎已经没有能力控制即将发生的事情了。为什么这帮被诅咒的家伙不找份新工作？反正他们绝对脑子够用的。

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MedianD

"Authorities have downplayed such a scenario, insisting the situation appears under control and that radiation levels in the air are dangerous." Uh..... you'll want to fix that CNN.

“当局低估了这种情况，并坚持说局势受到控制，但是空气中已经出现的辐射量是危险的。”恩。。。CNN你还真信.

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dabambz

Would you rather have them say "We're all gonna die!"
难道你要他们说“咱们都得死么？”

heavtrunner

Actually, dabambz, we are all going to die. It is just a question of when . .

其实俺们大家早晚都有那一天。

ovipconsult
The media inventing stories again..... just like the Toyota's break.... only in America where people are so concerned about Toyota's break... and now the media wants us to fear about a nuclear meltdown... it may come... but it isn't yet.

媒体又再编造故事呢。。。就想上次丰田的刹车片的事儿一样。。。只有老美才对那个刹车片那么关注。。。然后现在又要拿核芯融化的事情吓唬咱们。。。也许会。。。但是现在还没呢。


（翻完就过时，实时新闻的特点。。。）

超大牛人太多，小弟就是个玩票，板砖轻一些。

Workers scramble to cool reactors; official says 2nd blast possible
工人抢工冷却反应堆;官员说第二次爆炸还有可能发生

原帖地址：http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/13/japan.nuclear.reactors/index.html?iref=allsearch

(CNN) -- Workers continued efforts to cool down fuel rods inside two nuclear reactors Sunday as a Japanese government official warned that a second explosion could occur at the plant.

CNN 周日，工人继续尽最大努力冷却核反应堆的燃料棒，有日本政府官员警告说，核电站可能还会发生第二次爆炸。

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said an explosion could take place in the building housing the No. 3 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in northeastern Japan.

内阁官房长官枝野幸男表示，位于日本东北部福岛核电站的3号反应堆也有可能会发生一起爆炸。

"There is a possibility that the third reactor may have hydrogen gas that is accumulating in the reactor (that) may potentially cause an explosion," he said.

他说：“有可能第三个反应堆会由于氢气在反应堆的不断积聚而造成一场爆炸，”

An explosion caused by hydrogen buildup Saturday blew the roof off a concrete building housing the plant's No. 1 reactor, but the reactor and its containment system were not damaged in the explosion.

星期六的氢气积聚造成的爆炸炸毁了核电​​厂1号反应堆的屋顶，但反应堆及其控制系统并没有在爆炸中受损。

Edano said the No. 3 reactor would also likely withstand a similar blast, noting that workers had already released gas from the building to try to prevent an explosion.

枝野幸男说，3号反应堆也将可能承受类似的爆炸，并指出，那里的工人已经从内部释放出蒸气，试着防止发生爆炸。

Workers have been scrambling to cool off fuel rods at both reactors after a massive earthquake and tsunami disabled their cooling systems. Japanese authorities have said there is a "possibility" that a meltdown has occurred in the reactors.

大地震和海啸摧毁了冷却系统，工人们一直抢工冷却两个反应堆的燃料棒。日本当局说，有“可能”，反应堆核芯会发生彻底融化。

Explosion at Japanese nuclear plant A meltdown is a catastrophic failure of the reactor core, with a potential for widespread radiation release.

日本核电厂反应堆堆芯的熔化爆炸会造成灾难性的后果，并极有可能造成大范围的核辐射。

But Japanese officials stressed that there were no indications of dangerously high radiation levels in the atmosphere around the two reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in northeastern Japan. They said they were unable to confirm whether a meltdown had occurred because they cannot get close enough to the reactors' cores.

但日本官员强调，福岛日本第一核电厂两个反应堆还没有显示出发生高辐射的迹象。他们说，因为无法足够接近反应堆的内核，所以不能确认危机是否发生。

"We are continuing to monitor the radiation, but it is under control," Edano told reporters.

枝野幸男对记者说：“我们将继续监测核辐射，但它在控制之中。”

Later Sunday, a spokesman for Japan's prime minister repeated that assertion and said he would not describe what was occurring in the reactors as a "meltdown."

周日晚些时候，日本首相发言人（内阁官防副长官四方敬之）再次表示并且断言，说他不认为反应堆现在的泄露是“熔毁”。

"The situation is under control. ....We have been succeeding in lowering pressure inside the containment vessel," spokesman Noriyuki Shikata said.

他说：“我们一直在成功降低安全壳内的压力容器，目前情况已经得到控制。”

Edano said doctors were examining nine people who tested positive for high radiation levels on their skin and clothing.

枝野幸男表示，医生正在检查九个人皮肤和衣服上的辐射量，他们曾参与测试核反应堆的辐射水平。

Meanwhile, he said authorities were responding under the presumption that meltdowns had taken place in both reactors.

同时，他说，（如果）两个反应堆核芯熔毁当局也会有所对策。

Workers were pumping seawater into the reactors in what one expert described as an "act of desperation" to cool them down.

工人们在为反应堆注入海水以此来冷却它，一位专家称此为“绝望的行为”。

As official information about the crisis trickled out, scientists and experts around the world weighed in on the situation, offering a wide range of interpretations of the events and their possible consequences.

随着这次危机的官方资料一点一滴地流出，世界各地的科学家和专家都在权衡此次状况，他们提供了一系列的事件以及其可能引起的广泛后果的解释。

Robert Alvarez, senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies and a former senior policy adviser to the U.S. secretary of energy, described the plan to use saltwater as "an act of desperation" by Japanese authorities, who seemed unable to deliver fresh water or plain water to cool the reactor and stabilize it.

能源部长，美国能源研究所的高级秘书学者，前高级政策顾问罗伯特 阿尔瓦雷斯，解释日本当局这次用海水灌注反应堆的“绝望的行为”的原因，似乎是因为已经无法输送淡水或纯海水来冷却反应堆或者稳定它。

If the effort to cool the nuclear fuel inside the reactor fails completely -- a scenario experts who have spoken to CNN say is unlikely -- the resulting release of radiation could cause enormous damage to the plant or release radiation into the atmosphere or water. That could lead to widespread cancer and other health problems, experts say.
专家说，如果冷却反应堆内的核燃料的努力完全失败（一位专家曾对CNN说这种情况不可能发生），那么释放的辐射可能会导致对厂区造成巨大损害或进入大气和水环境，这也许会导致癌症和其他普遍的健康问题。

Authorities have downplayed such a scenario, insisting the situation appears under control and that radiation levels in the air are dangerous. Still, as what they described as "a precaution," more than 200,000 people who live within 20 kilometers (12 miles) of the plant have been ordered to leave the area.

当局低估了这种情况，并坚持说局势受到控制，但是空气中已经出现的辐射量是危险的。不过正如他们所说的“预防措施”，电厂附近20公里（12英里）范围内的20万居民已被命令离开该地区。

"The bottom line is that we just don't know what's going to happen in the next couple of days and, frankly, neither do the people who run the system," added Dr. Ira Helfand, a member of the board of Physicians for Social Responsibility.

PSR智库董事会成员艾拉 海尔法德博士说，“未来几天内发生的事情我们谁也不能预知，坦白地说，这个系统现在谁也运行不了。”

”What we do know, he added, is that Japan's nuclear facilities are "way out of whack."

他补充说：”就我们所知，这次是日本的核设施出现了“失衡。”

While some analysts said Japanese officials had not informed the public quickly enough about the evolving crisis, Jay Lehr, science director at the Heartland Institute in Chicago, said he was "100% confident" that Japan would be able to solve the problems at its nuclear plants.

尽管一些分析家说日本官员向公众公布这次环境危机并不够迅速，芝加哥中心地带研究所所长吉 伦莱尔却说他有“百分之百的信心”，相信日本能解决这次核泄漏。


"Nobody builds better power plants than Japan, because they are the most seismically active country on earth. They are built to withstand this very earthquake," he said.

他说 “没人比日本人建的发电厂更好，因为日本是地球上地震最活跃的国家，在建造的时候，日本人就已经考虑如何承受大地震”。

"I am absolutely, 100% confident that they will be able to solve the existing problem of a meltdown, if it is occurring, that they will be able to totally eliminate the escape of any radiation," he said.

他说：“我绝对有百分之百的信心，他们将能够解决现这次危机，如果(核泄漏）发生，他们也将完全消除任何泄露的辐射，”。
Robert Apthorpe, a nuclear engineer who has been fielding questions about Japan's nuclear plant problems on Twitter, said Sunday that time is of the essence.

核工程师罗伯特 阿普瑟珀在推特微博上列举了日本核电站的难题，并说星期天是关键的时间点。

"We have to watch very carefully the next 24 to 48 hours. ... We're not out of the woods yet," he said.

他说：“未来24至48小时我们必须密切关注。...我们并没有摆脱困境，”。

The problems at the Daiichi plant began Friday, when the 8.9-magnitude quake that struck offshore forced the automatic shutdown of the plant's nuclear reactors and knocked out the main cooling system, according to the country's nuclear agency.

日本核机构认为福岛核泄露，始于周五8.9级的地震迫使电站的核反应堆自动关闭，并且地震震毁了主要的冷却系统。
A tsunami resulting from the quake then washed over the site, knocking out backup generators.

而地震引发的海啸又冲垮了电网，损坏了备用发电机。

（译者：核电站是系统配套工程，系统安全性同理于木桶效应，那个短板决定一切。配套系统损坏以至于断电后无法冷却，而且即使地震和海啸发生也不应该断电，因为核电站电力供应属于军工最高级，优先级最高，完全和民用分开。

发生事故后东京电力没有第一时间停止反应堆，没电又无法冷却导致燃棒干烧24小时，燃料棒上方又没有近千吨的冷却水，这个在其他国家核电站包括我国所有的核电站都有的。最后电厂工人含泪释放带有辐射的蒸汽，氢气爆炸，现在没人知道炉心到底什么状况，这些小概率事件在设计反应堆的时候都必须考虑到的，日本运气好运行40年，报应来了，炉心熔毁2个，6个出现冷却系统故障，天灾加人祸，主要是人祸，IAEA说日本肯定是瞒报了安全等级的。

CNN也在不实报道，这次事件其实严重的多，越翻越有意思。）

The reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant are boiling-water reactors. The reactor affected by Saturday's explosion is Fukushima Daiichi 1. It was connected to the grid in November 1970, making it about 40 years old.

福岛核电站的反应堆是沸水反应堆，周六的爆炸发生于1号机组。它于1970年11月并入电网，已经运行40年了。

The No. 1 unit is the oldest of six reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi site, according to the World Nuclear Association.

据WNA世界核协会称，1号机组是福岛核电站六个反应堆中历史最悠久的。

Japan is heavily dependent on nuclear power, with 54 plants and another eight slated for construction, said Aileen Mioko Smith of Green Action, an environmental group. All are located in "very seismic" areas, she said.

一位绿色环保组织成员艾琳 美央子 史密斯（译者吐槽：还专门BAIDU她，能查到这个人的博客）说，日本是严重依赖核电的国家，计有54个核电站和另外在建的八个，它们全部坐落在地震带上。

Authorities have also detected cooling system problems at another nuclear facility in Fukushima Prefecture, the Fukushima Daini plant, but have not expressed any concerns about possible meltdowns there.


当局还发现另一个福岛核电站的冷却系统也有问题，但没有表示会有可能发生融化。

Edano said that there have not been any leaks of radioactive material at either of the affected plants. Authorities deliberately have let out radioactive steam in order to alleviate growing pressure inside both of the affected reactors.

枝野幸男说受地震影响的机组没有任何核辐射泄露的迹象。当局命令施放有放射性的蒸汽，以缓解日益受影响的反应堆压力。


CNN's Tom Watkins and Greg Botelho contributed to this report.

CNN汤姆 沃特金斯和格雷格 博特尔报道。
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saihong

Why is this guy Bill Nye providing "expert" commentary on this? Couldn't CNN get anyone more credentialled? The guy is a comedian, former Disney tv presenter and environmentalist. What about hearing from someone who is actually an expert in modern day nuclear power generation or someone from one of the monitoring agencies? CNN surely you can do better. Viewers want "expert" opinion on such grave matters....not punters

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为什么BILL NYE比尔 奈伊这家伙能提供“专家”的评论？（译者：美国版郑渊洁，儿童科普文学作者，前波音工程师）CNN还能不能再有点公信力？这家伙就是一个喜剧演员，前迪斯尼电视节目主持人和环保人士。从一个真正的核能专家或者监督机构人士口中听来的不比这个强？ CNN你能不能干啊，大家要的是真正的“专家”对这个严重问题的意见。

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RmpleShatNut

enviro-mental-ist

环保-精神病-学家

artitude

i think that's spelled enviroNmentalist RmpleShatNut.

回复RmpleShatNUT,我认为应该拼成环保-心灵感应者。

wallofchina

That is just too good to be true, Bill Nye the Science Guy!?!?! God I love CNN

比尔 奈伊是科学家？如果是真的就太好了，老天爷我爱CNN。

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MvK2010

I'm going to be the anti-thesis here and tell everyone to listen to the japanese government. There's no need to cause widespread panic just yet, there has been no explosion of the core itself.

How it works; a meltdown occurs when the core attains "critical mass" - which means that the nuclear chain reaction inside the core has gone out of control and cannot be stopped. At that moment, if there is any remaining coolant (water) inside the core, or water is added to the core when it happens, the water will be dissected into hydrogen and oxygen due to the intense heat produced by a meltdown. This could cause a large explosion, ejecting the core's mass into the outside world. There's your chernobyl disaster.

That has not happened yet. The explosion we had seen earlier was the pressure relief system blowing up. They opened the valve too quickly which caused a hydrogen explosion. The stability or structure of the core was not compromised.

If the core is dry during meltdown, it will melt itself until there is simply nothing left. The dome which it is placed in and the building itself should contain the vast majority of the radiation leakage, and only a minimal amount will leak to the outside world - though, enough to cause some damage to the surroundings -directly outside- of the plant - BUT NO FURTHER.

If the core itself blows up, then it's time to asses the wind direction and evacuate everyone in the vicinity (atleast a 40 mile radius), especially in the area where the clouds are going to be blowing. Prematurely evacuating everyone would put stress on the relief effort which is intended to help the victims that were directly affected by the quake itself, furthermore, it would cause unnessecary panic.

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我持相反的论调并且告诉大家应该听日本政府的。目前还没有必要造成大范围的恐慌，反应堆的核心并没有爆炸。

这个原理是这样的，如果要爆炸，那就是当反应堆核心达到临界点的时候，这意味着核反应链失控并且无法阻止。如果这个时候核芯里还有剩余的冷却剂（水），或者还再加水，那么核芯熔毁产生的热量会把水分解为氢气和氧气，这就会导致大爆炸，把核芯的所有东西都喷射到外部，就像切额诺贝利(译者，这个才是正确的名称）的事故一样。

这些还都没发生，目前我们看到的爆炸是减压系统炸毁了，他们打开阀门过快造成了氢气爆炸，而核芯结构的稳定性并没有被破坏。

如果当核芯融化的时候是干燥的，它仅仅是融化而已，直到融的一无所有。而它被建筑物隔离的大量的放射性物质只会少量泄露到外部世界，也就是电站周围而已，不会再远了。

如果核芯爆炸的话，那么该地区（至少40英里半径）（译者:大约65公里），特别是云层风向所及之处的人都要被疏散。过早的疏散会对救援地震幸存者的行动带来压力，此外，会引起不必要的恐慌。

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TheBossIsOut

Charlie Sheen must be pis$ed that he's losing attention in the news media over all this.

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查理辛会因此事失去媒体的关注而感到愤怒。

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1 ovipconsult

I'm always wondering what happened to New Zealand, and they give me Charlie Sheen. At least CNN is giving me real news from Japan. Cut that guy out!

俺想知道新西兰都发生了什么，而媒体却播查理辛的消息，至少这次CNN让俺知道日本的真实新闻，不要再报道那个家伙了。

2 srh1177
He knows it will be back on him in a week or two.

他知道一周或者两周后媒体还会再关注他的。

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herculez

The number of stupid people who chime in on these comment boards is amazing! "Never build a nuc reactor again" ... are you a complete idiot?? "Use solar and wind" ... you're a bigger idiot! And someone compared this to Chernobyl... haha... you might want to do some research before you open your mouth. This isn't even close to the same type of event. In Chernobyl, the reactor vessel was exposed, components of which caught fire. Nuclear power remains one of the safest and cleanest power sources we have developed for mass use.

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这些评论版上的傻瓜数量实在多的惊人！”永远不要在建电站“，你是个白痴么？”用太阳能或者风能“。。。大傻蛋！！还有些人拿这个和切额诺贝利的事情比。。。哈哈。。。张嘴之前真应该研究下，两起事件完全不是一个类型的。在切额诺贝利，部分核芯起火，反应堆安全壳被暴露在外了。核能依旧是目前大量开发的能源中最安全和最干净的一个。


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Wzrd1

Actually, Chernobyl didn't USE a containment vessel at all, hence their ENTIRE problem.

事实上，切额诺贝利只是部分使用了安全壳，于是造成了整个问题。

artitude

no we aren't idiots. Environmental biologists aren't idiots. This s88t aint safe.

不，我们都不是傻瓜。环境生物学家也都不是傻瓜。这s88t也是不安全的。



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1stAmed75

A great people and society.....i would gladly trade one japanese for all the muslims in the world......The japanese are and asset to humanity...

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一个伟大的人民和社会.....我会很高兴地拿一个日本人换世界上所有的MSL......日本人是人类的财富...

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dabambz

Same goes for one bigotted american

有人成为最白痴的美国人喽。(译者：19人喜欢这句）

Wzrd1
It's a shame that YOU are not an asset to humanity, you just couldn't get the last two letters to become an ASSet.

这是一个羞耻，你不是人类的财富，财富ASSET这个词去掉后面2个字母，ASS屁股，就是你。

Serafinna

i would gladly trade you for a pig!

俺很愿意拿你换头猪。

Maromi

People like you are why a lot of countries hate America.

那么多国家会恨美国就是因为有像你这样的人。

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Dragonverse

Please make sure you verify your facts before airing them! Your 'science guy' is in error concerning Cesium. Cesium is NOT used to control the nuclear reaction, Boron and Hafnium control rods are. Cesium is a byproduct of nuclear fission and if found in the coolant is indicative of a fuel element failure - what the uninitiated refer to as a partial meltdown. The hydrogen explosion is a result of a reaction of the Zirconium cladding of the fuel with water - something that happens only at extremely high temperatures - another indication of a possible fuel element failure. Boron pumped into the core will poison the nuclear reaction but it will not cool the core which is the primary focus of all activity at this moment. I should know - I am a nuclear plant worker.

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播出之前请验证到底什么是事实。你们这些“科学佬”提及铯时犯了个错。铯不是用来控制核反应堆的，硼和铪才是控制棒。铯是核裂变的副产品，如果在冷却剂中发现硼那表明是控制液的元件故障，而不是什么门外汉所说的部分融化。氢气爆炸是因为水和控制液还有它的锆包层发生反应，而这种情况只会在极其高温的时候才会发生，这也表明了控制液元件故障的可能。硼注入核芯会污染反应堆但不会降温，这才是此刻关注的焦点。俺知道这些是因为俺是个核电站工人。

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xordon

problem is scale deposition when too much inorganix substance touches hot core...it will insulate the core even more...and will heat it up faster ...leading to more unstable core..who will clear the scales?

问题是太多的无机物接触热核芯造成了沉积物质。。。这会使核芯被隔离。。。然后热的更快。。。导致核芯更加不稳定。。。谁能清理这些沉积物。。。

MvK2010

Considering that they've been trying to cool the core for a long time now, does it mean that the scram and poison injection failed / didn't have enough effect? Too many delayed neutrons?

Are there any other ways besides these two to stop a chain reaction?

Thanks for clearing that up by the way.

考虑到他们现在一直长时间地试图冷却核芯，是否意味着紧急中止和控制物注入失败或者没起作用？中子反应太迟了？

除了这两种办法是否有任何其他方法来阻止连锁反应？

谢谢你，澄清上面的事实。

artitude


Let's just hope that this "safe" s888t won't blow up and release radiation. Yesterday i saw a theoretical physicist on TV say "Thank God" the first explosion was a steam explosion. Now when such people have to go on TV and say "Thank God", that implies they have pretty much no control on what's happening there. Nuclear physicists, my a88...why don't they friggin get new jobs? They are intelligent enough anyways。


咱们只能希望这个“安全”的S888T不会爆炸和核辐射泄露。昨天俺看见电视上一个物理学家说“感谢帝哥”，第一次爆炸只是个蒸汽爆炸。现在当这些人再上电视的时候说“感谢帝哥”，这意味着他们几乎已经没有能力控制即将发生的事情了。为什么这帮被诅咒的家伙不找份新工作？反正他们绝对脑子够用的。

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MedianD

"Authorities have downplayed such a scenario, insisting the situation appears under control and that radiation levels in the air are dangerous." Uh..... you'll want to fix that CNN.

“当局低估了这种情况，并坚持说局势受到控制，但是空气中已经出现的辐射量是危险的。”恩。。。CNN你还真信.

三个回复

dabambz

Would you rather have them say "We're all gonna die!"
难道你要他们说“咱们都得死么？”

heavtrunner

Actually, dabambz, we are all going to die. It is just a question of when . .

其实俺们大家早晚都有那一天。

ovipconsult
The media inventing stories again..... just like the Toyota's break.... only in America where people are so concerned about Toyota's break... and now the media wants us to fear about a nuclear meltdown... it may come... but it isn't yet.

媒体又再编造故事呢。。。就想上次丰田的刹车片的事儿一样。。。只有老美才对那个刹车片那么关注。。。然后现在又要拿核芯融化的事情吓唬咱们。。。也许会。。。但是现在还没呢。


（翻完就过时，实时新闻的特点。。。）