South Korea was a relative latecomer to nuclear power—starting up its program only one year before the Three Mile Island accident.

韩国算是核能利用的新手国度，它在三里岛事故发生一年后才开始了核能利用计划。

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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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And although a growing nationwide movement in favor of nuclear power exists, no new plants have been announced since the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979.

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The nuclear accident at Three Mile Island, for example, elevated the importance of environmental risk factors in the markets.

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Still, it would be foolish to ignore the possibility that the repercussions of the present crisis will be made much more far-reaching if it precipitates the sort of panic that took hold after the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear facility in 1979 or the oil leak off Santa Barbara a decade earlier.

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