Yesterday's 8.9-magnitude earthquake set off the automatic shut-down systems in ten of Japan's 55 nuclear power plants, from which the country gets a third of its electricity.

昨天的8.9级地震使到日本55座核电站中的10座自动关闭，而这些核电站占了日本全国发电量的三分之一。

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Automatic shut down water leaking device.

漏水自动关闭装置。

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Wherever George Washington may have slept, if he were alive today the place would be surrounded by iron barricades, shut-down roadways and government sharpshooters bearing automatic weapons.

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Now, the real fight will be over the automatic spending cuts due to kick in in about two-and-a-half weeks and the government shut-down scheduled for a month after that.

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