如果这些燃料棒暴露时间过长，释放出的热量和蒸汽将熔化反应堆的核心。
If those things are exposed for too long, the heat and steam that they let off could melt the reactor's core.
周二一早，令人恐惧的消息传来，日本一座核电站受损的反应堆面临完全熔化的风险，后果不得而知，可能是毁灭性的。
Early Tuesday morning, the frightening news came that Japan was facing the full meltdown of crippled reactors at a nuclear power station - with unknown and potentially catastrophic consequences.
他们还说福岛核电站三个反应堆里的3%的燃料已经遭到严重损坏，这意味着这些反应堆已经部分熔化了。
They also said that 3 per cent of the fuel in three of the reactors at the Fukushima plant had been severely damaged, suggesting those reactor cores have partially melted down.
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