The unfolding tragedy's impact on a nascent revival of reactor construction in the United States is too early to call, say experts.

有专家称，现在讨论日本这一悲剧事件对美国重建核反应堆初期的冲击还言之过早。

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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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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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Israel also struck a site in Syria that some say was a nuclear reactor under 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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