访谈录 2011-03-29&03-31 日本灾后蓝图

Give us your most negative impression for the future of Japan and your most optimistic impression for the future of Japan.

-The most optimistic one is that the workers put water over the reactor¹ core. Electricity is turned on. It is stable. And then there is gonna take another ten years in order to repair the damage of these reactors². That’s the best case scenario³. The worst case scenario is that they have to evacuate⁴. The workers have to evacuate because radiation levels are too far too beyond comprehension. It means we are in free fall.  All three reactors have a meltdown. It means a catastrophe⁵ beyond comprehension more than Chernobyl.

-And affecting more than just the island of Japan.

-It could then go into the oceans where it could contaminate, well, sea life as well as of course, northern Japan. Parts of it could be a dead zone.  We are talking about mammoth⁶ amount of thyroid cancers especially in children. Food that has to be impounded and economy reduce to ruins in northern Japan. That is the worst case.

-This is the worst case. I mean does it make you want to just get a cab and never get out.

-Well that’s why people are leaving, that is why some of my relatives decided⁷ to leave rather than...

-This Indian Point, as far as I know, my house has no nuclear power in it. We don't like the dishwasher, none of that uses nuclear power. I don't want Indian Point. I'd live down the street; It’s like a cold second. I’m just down there, I don't want that anymore. How can we get them to take that away? I think earlier I said it was run by people of Arkansas. I think it is run by people in Louisiana. I am sorry, I don't know. But I don't want it. I didn't vote for it. I don’t want it. And you know I’m just get triple A batteries. I don't need it. What do we do to get it out of here?

-Well, a certain flash of the lights right here in this room come from Indian Point.

-We can do without them.

-And of course, you know there is a trade off. It means that we have to buy energy from Canada and other places, rates are gonna go up a little bit, you know.

-Rates go up anyway.

-And then the governor of New York State has even said out with Indian point. Even the governor…

-Is anything he can do about that legislatively⁸?

-Well we have to like make sure that the politicians are aware of it, put pressure on the politicians.

And in fact even one NRC official said that we had a chance to re-license⁹ that reactor, knowing today we probably would not license that reactor.

-Yeah, that’s a case of no-brainer. But I remember a few years ago. They had trouble with emergency alarms going off up there, and it was like, well, is that really radioactive steam leaking or is it just a battle alarm? We’re not sure. I mean we have so many, so many gains so much violence in the city. Why don't we send a bunch of these gains up there just to take the thing apart? You know and then look the other way.

-That’s the Letterman solution, right?

-It could be my solution.

1 reactor   

n.反应器；反应堆

参考例句：

• The atomic reactor generates enormous amounts of thermal energy.原子反应堆发出大量的热能。
• Inside the reactor the large molecules are cracked into smaller molecules.在反应堆里，大分子裂变为小分子。

2 reactors   

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。

3 scenario   

n.剧本，脚本；概要

参考例句：

• But the birth scenario is not completely accurate.然而分娩脚本并非完全准确的。
• This is a totally different scenario.这是完全不同的剧本。

4 evacuate   

v.遣送；搬空；抽出；排泄；大(小)便

参考例句：

• We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
• They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。

5 catastrophe   

n.大灾难，大祸

参考例句：

• I owe it to you that I survived the catastrophe.亏得你我才大难不死。
• This is a catastrophe beyond human control.这是一场人类无法控制的灾难。

6 mammoth   

n.长毛象；adj.长毛象似的，巨大的

参考例句：

• You can only undertake mammoth changes if the finances are there.资金到位的情况下方可进行重大变革。
• Building the new railroad will be a mammoth job.修建那条新铁路将是一项巨大工程。

7 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

8 legislatively   

adv.立法地

参考例句：

• Indeed, experience with the legislatively imposed hybrid procedures has not been encouraging. 的确，立法规定的混合型程序的经历并不令人感到鼓舞。 来自英汉非文学 - 行政法
• The criminal pattern kidnapping and killing the kidnapped person is contained and aggravated crime legislatively. 从犯罪形态来看，“杀害被绑架人”的立法属于包容加重犯。 来自互联网

9 license   

n.执照，许可证，特许；v.许可，特许

参考例句：

• The foreign guest has a license on the person.这个外国客人随身携带执照。
• The driver was arrested for having false license plates on his car.司机由于使用假车牌而被捕。