Gates suggested there's much more potential for nuclear energy, despite the recent disaster with Japan's Fukushima reactor.

盖茨表示，尽管最近日本的福岛核反应堆发生了大灾难，但是核能仍然存在巨大的应用潜力。

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The white whale of energy, scientists have been hyping the potential of nuclear fusion since, oh, the first hydrogen bomb was dropped over the Marshall Islands in 1952.

能源的大白鲸，自从，噢，第一颗氢弹在1952年被投掷在马绍尔群岛以来，科学家们一直都在大肆宣传核聚变的潜力。

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UBS, a bank, predicts that finding energy-saving technologies to counter the potential loss of nuclear power will imbue Japan with a new creative mission.

瑞士联合银行预言，日本被赋予了一个新的创造性的使命：寻找新的节能方法以弥补核电站受损而可能产生的电力缺口。

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Dianne Feinstein, D-California, and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-California, toured the power plant, to question the need for nuclear energy and raise alarms about a potential environmental catastrophe.

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If such a reactor could meet the targets claimed for it by its proponents (a big if, says Harvard's Mr Bunn), it has the potential to be cheaper than existing types of nuclear energy, safe from Chernobyl-style large accidents, and more proliferation-resistant than typical reactors.

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Nuclear power has the potential to be the safest means of producing electrical energy, but to be that, some things need to change.

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