【英语时差8,16】核电厂更安全了吗？（上）

In 1979, there was an incident at a nuclear power plant on Three Mile Island, in Pennsylvania, when radioactive steam leaked into the open air. Nobody was hurt, although thousands of people fled the area. Seven years later, a much worse accident happened at the Chernobyl nuclear station in Ukraine. One of the reactors¹ melted down, building up tremendous pressure and steam. The reactor’s lid blew off, spewing radioactive materials into the atmosphere. These incidents stalled the nuclear industry in the United States and throughout much of Western Europe for the next few decades. Now, though, with renewed interest in nuclear power as a non carbon emitting energy source, it’s worth wondering: have nuclear plants become safer since Three Mile Island and Chernobyl?

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起反应的人( reactor的名词复数 )； 反应装置； 原子炉； 核反应堆

参考例句：

• The TMI nuclear facility has two reactors. 三哩岛核设施有两个反应堆。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
• The earliest production reactors necessarily used normal uranium as fuel. 最早为生产用的反应堆，必须使用普通铀作为燃料。