The boom in reactor construction coincidedwith the beginnings of America's environmental movement and a sense of growingunease about nuclear power.

反应堆建设潮，恰逢美国环保运动的起源和对核能的不安全感的发端。

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Nuclear power results in up to 25 times more carbon emissions than wind energy, when reactor construction and uranium refining and transport are considered.

而如果把核反应堆的建设和铀的提炼和运输过程算上，核能的碳排放量是风能的25倍。

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The technology under construction here, known as a pebble-bed reactor, is not new.

这种名为球床核反应堆的技术并不是新近才出现的。

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But some key resources, including skilled engineers, mean there is likely to be competition between countries if there is a worldwide surge in reactor construction.

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In 1981 it bombed Saddam Hussein's Osirak reactor, and in 2007 it bombed a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor under construction.

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New licensing rules will approve reactor designs for construction anywhere, rather than requiring approval for each individual plant.

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