France's ASN nuclear safety authority said the accident in Japan could be classed as level five or six on the international scale of one to seven, on a par with the 1979 US Three Mile Island meltdown.

法国核安全局(asn)表示，按照国际核泄漏事故1至7级的评级标准，此次日本核事故可被评估为5级或6级，与1979年的美国三里岛熔毁事故相当。

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The widely reported and oft-satirized partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania caused many to re-evaluate their image of nuclear power.

发生过被广泛报道和再三讽刺灾难的三里岛坐落在宾夕法尼亚州首府哈里斯堡不远的地方，它也常引得许多人们对核电站的图像进行了重新评估。

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Shortly after the meltdown at Three Mile Island, the U.S. nuclear industry began an ambitious overhaul of its safety practices.

在三哩岛核事故发生后不久，美国就对其核工业开展了一场轰轰烈烈的安全大检查。

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The 1979 Three Mile Island meltdown did not result in any measure-able uptick in thyroid cancer cases.

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