工作人员正试图在核电站安装新的电缆，以恢复冷却系统的正常运作。上个星期的地震和海啸破坏了冷却系统。

Workers are trying to install new power lines to the building to restore cooling systems which were knocked out during last week's earthquake and tsunami disasters.

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当然，假如发生地震，或者假如船只碰坏了电缆，那你就只好自认倒霉。

And of course, if you have an earthquake, or if someone is, you know, hitting your cable with a boat, or a ship, then you simply have bad luck, " he said.

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古特伯赖特说，在铺设电缆的过程中，除了避免太平洋洋底的地质不稳定的地点之外，人们不可能预测地震会造成什么问题。

Gutberlet says, aside from avoiding seismically unstable spots on the ocean floor, it is impossible to forecast such problems.

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