America is the world's largest producer of nuclear energy, but has not approved a single new plant since a scary (but non-lethal) nuclear accident at Three Mile Island in 1979.

美国虽然是世界上最大的核能源生产国，但是自1979年骇人(但非致死)的三里岛核泄漏事故以来，还没有批准任何建造任何一座新核电站。

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U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded study concluded that a new nuclear plant was Armenia's lowest-cost energy option.

一项美国国际开发署自主的研究表明，新的核电站是亚美尼亚成本最低的能源选择。

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The earthquake and tsunami in Japan, compounded by an accident at a nuclear energy plant, quickly became the most expensive natural disaster ever recorded.

日本的地震和海啸造成重创，核能发电厂事故更是雪上加霜，结果，这次地震和海啸迅速成为有记录以来代价最昂贵的自然灾害。

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Lithuania - one of the most nuclear-energy dependent nations along with France asked the EU to allow it to keep the plant open for another two to three years.

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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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The March 2011 earthquake unleashed a devastating tsunami, and Japan is still coming to terms with its impact - not least the question of restarting its nuclear energy programme after the closure of the crippled Fukushima plant.

BBC: Japan profile

Iran is determined to develop nuclear energy and has a contract with Russia to finish a half-built, German-designed nuclear-power plant in the port of Bushehr on the Persian Gulf.

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