"Fukushima marked the death of conventional light-water reactors," says Kirk Sorensen, founder of Flibe Energy, a highly regarded nuclear technology startup based in Huntsville, Alabama.

Flibe Energy创始人科克·索伦森称：“福岛事故标志着传统轻水反应堆的消亡。”Flibe Energy位于美国阿拉巴马州亨茨维尔，是一家备受推崇的核技术初创企业。

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That moment never came, despite total spending of more than $2 billion on fuel oil and the aborted light-water reactors.

尽管已经花费总计20多亿美元的燃油又将一座废弃的轻水反应堆扔在那里，但是朝方兑现诺言的那一刻也永远不会来临。

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They've asked for light water reactors for nuclear energy.

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In 1994, North Korea agreed to stop making plutonium, in return for which America and its allies would supply the country with fuel oil and build two Western-designed light-water nuclear reactors (since it is a bit harder to produce weapons-grade materials from such reactors than from the ones North Korea had been building).

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The United Arab Emirates is also building nuclear power reactors, four Korean light water rectors, in full transparency and with full support from the international community.

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