America is the world's largest producer of nuclear energy, but has not approved a single new plant since a scary (but non-lethal) nuclear accident at Three Mile Island in 1979.

美国虽然是世界上最大的核能源生产国，但是自1979年骇人(但非致死)的三里岛核泄漏事故以来，还没有批准任何建造任何一座新核电站。

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The cooling problems at the Japanese plant raised fears of a repeat of 1979's Three Mile Island accident, the most serious in the history of the U.S. nuclear power industry.

在日本核电站冷却系统的失灵让人们想起1979年美国三厘岛核电站泄漏事故发生时的恐惧。三厘岛核电站是美国历史上一次非常严重的核泄漏事故。

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The widely reported and oft-satirized partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania caused many to re-evaluate their image of nuclear power.

发生过被广泛报道和再三讽刺灾难的三里岛坐落在宾夕法尼亚州首府哈里斯堡不远的地方，它也常引得许多人们对核电站的图像进行了重新评估。

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The government admitted that it is likely to raise the JCO Co. uranium-processing plant accident rating on an international scale to the same as that given the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear-power plant catastrophe.

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No new plants have been ordered there since the accident at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in 1979 (when radioactive gas escaped from a nuclear power plant), though some that were being built were completed.

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