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.
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.
日本官房长官枝野幸男说，福岛反应堆芯的燃料正在熔化，否认已经损坏。
Yukio Edano, the government's chief spokesman, said that it was possible the core reactor had been "deformed" by its exposure above water, but he denied that it was a meltdown.
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