创新英语-Second Explosion at Japan Nuclear Plant

A second explosion has occurred at the nuclear power plant that was damaged in Fridays catastrophic earthquake and tsunami. Nuclear reactor 3 from the Fukushima plant suffered a similar explosion to that which hit reactor 1 on Saturday. Officials say

2018年CRI Installation completed for pressure vessel of Hualong One nuclear power unit

The pressure vessel of the No. 5 reactor at the Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant in Fujian has been installed. The facility is using Chinese designed-and-built third-generation Hualong One reactor technology. The nuclear power unit is scheduled to be put i

英语新闻与报道—News & Reports 103

Wk 13 (28 March 1979) Nuclear Reactor Melts Down In The USAThis Week in HistoryDeadly radiation escapes from a US nuclear power plant, endangering nearly 2,000,000 people. In 1979, a reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvani

经济学人:日本灾难,钚与米奇鼠

Disaster in Japan日本灾难,钚与米奇鼠 Plutonium and Mickey Mouse钚与米奇鼠 Japans nuclear crisis drags on, exposing profound failures both at the company and in national energy policy 日本核危机悬而未决，暴露出公司和国家能

VOA慢速英语2017--如何处理福岛的放射性污水

What to Do with Radioactive Water from Fukushima Japanese officials are trying to decide what to do with thousands of tons of radioactive water from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant. More than six years have passed since a powerful earthquak

China expands its oldest nuclear power plant with new unit

BEIJING, April 8 (Xinhua) -- Qinshan nuclear power plant, China's first, has finished an expansion project with a new generator unit in operation, said China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) on Sunday. The pressurized water reactor power-generatin

切尔诺贝利三十年后风险仍在

AS IT IS 2016-04-26 Chernobyl, Risky Still, Thirty Years Later 切尔诺贝利三十年后风险仍在 Tuesday marks the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, the worlds worst nuclear accident. The effects of the disaster are still felt today.

VOA标准英语2012--Owner of Crippled Japanese Nuclear Plant Fights for Survival

Owner of Crippled Japanese Nuclear Plant Fights for Survival Facing tens of billions of dollars in liabilities, clean-up costs and the eventual decommissioning of its Fukushima power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Company, known as TEPCO, is in a fight

VOA标准英语2011--Farm Products Contaminated Near Japanese

Japan has confirmed radiation contamination of some agricultural products near a nuclear power plant crippled by last week's earthquake and tsunami that is still spewing radiation. In what is likely to deal a heavy blow to agriculture in the Tohoku r

Russian Support for Nuclear Power Weakens as Chernobyl Anniv

Japan's nuclear accident comes as Russia prepares for the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear explosion. This combination may weaken support for nuclear energy in Russia, long a major nuclear advocate. A Soviet official hysterically bellowing t

VOA标准英语2011--Nuclear Power Project Sparks Opposition

In Belarus, the nation that most suffered from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, officials recently signed a deal for their first nuclear power plant from Russia. Despite the authoritarian government in Minsk, popular protest is bubbling. After an expl

英闻天下——61 Shandong to Build Nuclear Power Plant with Safety Concerns

The coastal city of Weihai in East China's Shandong Province has started building a nuclear plant to address a shortage of power in the region. Power production in Shandong has been largely based on coal-burning, which pollutes the environment but do

2007年VOA标准英语-France Relies on Nuclear Power as Answer to Ene

By Sonja Pace Civaux, France 16 May 2007 Rising oil prices, the volatility of supplies, and need for alternative energy sources that will not add to climate change and global warming - these are issues increasingly in the public limelight, hotly deb

Chernobyl Accident Anniversary Recalled

Pripyat, Ukraine. A dead city. Homes, schoolrooms, playgrounds, and other places are crumbling as wild nature reclaims the land. Pripyat once had some 50,000 residents（居民） . Now they are gone, perhaps forever. Only the artifacts of their live

前途未卜的英国威尔士核项目

In a field in a remote part of north-west Wales, a lone farmer cuts the grass, parcelling it up into hay bales which can be sold for a modest profit. His farm, and even the hill on which it sits, will soon be demolished by the Japanese-owned company

新百元RMB将发行：盘点各国最高面额纸币

Japan has restarted its first nuclear reactor under new safety rules following the 2011 Fukushima disaster. 日本遵照2011年福岛地震后实施的新安全条例，重新启动了首个核反应堆。 All Japan's nuclear plants were gradually sh

VOA标准英语2010年-Lithuania Shuts Down Its Only Nuclear

Photo: AP This file photo shows a technician walking along the perimeter of a nuclear reactor head at the Ignalina nuclear power plant in Visaginas, Lithuania, 15 Dec 2009 Lithuania's Soviet-built nuclear power plant was shut down late Thursday as pa

2015年CRI Hinkley Nuclear Plant Deal Struck

CRI's Huang Shan reports. The agreement will see the China General Nuclear Power Corporation team up with a French company to build the new plant at Hinkley Point. Chinese President Xi Jinping and UK Prime Minister David Cameron have overseen the sig

Iran unlikely to stop nuclear fuel enrichment

TEHRAN, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- Iran said on Sunday it will not stop its nuclear fuel enrichment（丰富,改进） activities although Russia would provide it with the nuclear fuel needed to run its Bushehr nuclear power plant. Head of Iran's Majlis ( P

【英语时差8,16】核电厂更安全了吗？（下）

According to the 2009 update of an MIT study first published in 2003, nuclear power plants in the United States have become more reliable and significantly safer. For one thing, nuclear plant operators now receive better and more rigorous training. A