Three workers at a uranium-processing plant in Tokaimura, then the center of the Japanese nuclear-power industry, improperly mixed a uranium solution. A blue flash heralded trouble.

当时的东海村是日本核能源工业的中心，而三名铀处理厂的工人铀混合操作不当，随之而来的蓝光预示着麻烦的来临。

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The plant is surrounded by 140 square miles of tidal flats that are being reclaimed from the sea and will soon be covered in new petrochemical plants, power stations and other heavy industry.

工厂周围是140平方英里的潮汐滩地，那是填海造陆得来的，不久会陆续盖上新的石化厂，发电厂，还有其他的重工业工厂。

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The headline news for the coal industry in 2010 was what didn't happen: Construction did not begin on a single new coal-fired power plant in the United States for the second straight year.

发生了的事才能成为新闻，但2010年煤炭行业一件没有发生的事情却成了今日的头条：美国已是连续第二年没有开工建设新的燃煤发电厂了。

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Critics of the nuclear power industry say the plant is unsafe to operate at any power level and should be shut down permanently and dismantled.

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Opponents point to the enormous cost of building a nuclear power plant and question whether the industry is economically viable without taxpayers footing much of the bill.

FORBES: The Future of Nuclear Power in the United States

On Friday Mr Jones visited the construction site of a new nuclear power plant and called on British company to seize opportunities to invest in the nuclear industry.

BBC: David Jones