Since the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant is to be decommissioned, Japan will need new sources of electricity.

由于福岛第一(Dai - ichi)核电站将要退役，日本需要新的电力来源。

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The second hydrogen explosion in three days rocked Japan's stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant Monday, sending a massive column of smoke into the air and wounding 6 workers.

本周一，福岛第一核电站再次产生氢气爆炸，这是地震发生三天来的第二次爆炸。 一股浓烟凌空升起，造成6名工人受伤。

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Engineers restored power to some reactors at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant over the weekend, although new concerns about food contamination appeared after radiation levels were detected in tap water near the complex.

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As The Economist went to press, helicopters were dropping water to douse overheating nuclear fuel stored at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, where there have been explosions, fires and releases of radiation greater, it seems, than the Japanese authorities had admitted.

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Over recent months, the yen's weakening by about 20 percent against the U.S. dollar has helped export manufacturers but also boosted the cost of purchases of LNG and crude oil to make up for electricity shortfalls as all but two of Japan's nuclear power plants are operating following the March 2011 Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant disaster.

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