They are racing against time to restore power and cooling systems to the six reactors at Fukushima Daiichi and try to avert the biggest nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl in 1986.

他们正在和时间赛跑来恢复在福岛的6个核反应堆的电力和冷却系统，以试图避免自1986年切尔诺贝利以来最大的核灾难。

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The last thing the people of Japan need after the tragedy of this earthquake and tsunami is a nuclear catastrophe.

日本人民在尽力海啸和地震这样巨大的悲剧之后，可能还要面临最终的核灾难。

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Man is not immune to the forces of nature; Japan, if it can prevent nuclear catastrophe, may very well come as close as any human society ever has.

人类不能逃脱大自然强大的野蛮力量；如果日本能防止核灾难的发生，很容易就能恢复以往的繁荣了。

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"As a human being and particularly as a citizen of the only country ever to suffer such a nuclear catastrophe, I believe with all my heart and soul that these horrific weapons must be eliminated."

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

The plant has stopped operating amid serious damage and fears of a far greater nuclear catastrophe.

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Engineers are racing to avert a nuclear catastrophe at Fukushima Daiichi, badly damaged by Friday's quake and tsunami.

BBC: Japan earthquake: Anger over Fukushima evacuation plan

The market had basically held true to its news-driven moniker by falling on bad news relating to the risk of a nuclear catastrophe and then rising when those worries abated in the afternoon.

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