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From an environmental point of view, this seems like a perverse strategy, because nuclear power, as most people know, is carbon-free—and is also, as fewer people realize, fantastically safe. [qh]
从环境角度看，这个策略似乎有悖常理，因为正如大多数人所知，核能是无碳能源，而且很少有人意识到核能非常安全。[qh]
Only the 1986 accident at Chernobyl, in Ukraine, has caused mass fatalities from radioactivity, and the plant there was subpar and mismanaged, by Western standards. [qh]
只有1986年乌克兰的切尔诺贝利事故导致大量人员因放射性物质而死亡，按照西方标准，切尔诺贝利核电站不合标准且管理不善。[qh]
Excluding Chernobyl, the total number of deaths attributed to a radiation accident at a commercial nuclear-power plant is zero or one, depending on your interpretation of Japan’s 2011 Fukushima accident. [qh]
如果不算切尔诺贝利，商业核电站辐射事故造成的死亡总人数为零或一，这个数字取决于你对2011年日本福岛事故的解读。[qh]
The Fukushima evacuation certainly caused deaths; Japanese authorities have estimated that more than 2,000 people may have died from disruptions in services such as nursing care and from stress-related factors such as alcoholism and depression. [qh]
福岛疏散肯定造成了人员死亡; 日本当局估计，可能有2000多人遇难，有的因护理服务中段而死亡，有的因酗酒、抑郁等压力相关因素而死亡。[qh]
(Some experts now believe that the evacuation was far too large.) [qh]
(一些专家现在认为，撤离规模过于庞大。)[qh]
Even so, Japan’s decision to shut down its nuclear plants has been estimated to cause multiples of that death toll, on account of the increased fossil-fuel pollution that followed.[qh]
即便如此，日本关闭核电站的决定造成的死亡人数估计是这个数字的好多倍，因为随后化石燃料的污染加剧了。[qh]
The real challenge with giant nuclear plants like Fukushima and Three Mile Island is not making them safe but doing so at a reasonable price, which is the problem that companies like Kairos are trying to solve. [qh]
于福岛和三哩岛这样的大型核电站而言，真正的挑战不是保证其安全性，而是以合理的价格实现这一目标，这正是像卡伊洛斯这样的公司正在努力解决的问题。[qh]
But even people who feel scared of nuclear power do not dispute that fossil fuels are orders of magnitude more dangerous. [qh]
但即使是担忧核能的人也不否认，化石燃料的危险性要比核能高出几个数量级。[qh]
One study, published in 2021, estimated that air pollution from fossil fuels killed about 1 million people in 2017 alone. [qh]
2021年发表的一项研究估计，仅在2017年，化石燃料造成的空气污染就导致约100万人死亡。[qh]
In fact, nuclear power’s safety record to date is easily on par with the wind and solar industries, because wind turbines and rooftop panels create minor risks such as falls and fire. [qh]
事实上，迄今为止，核电的安全记录无疑可以与风能、太阳能产业相当，因为风力涡轮机与屋顶太阳能板会产生诸如坠落、起火等较小的风险。[qh]
As for nuclear waste, it has turned out to be a surprisingly manageable problem, partly because there isn’t much of it; all of the spent fuel the U.S. nuclear industry has ever created could be buried under a single football field to a depth of less than 10 yards, according to the Department of Energy.[qh]
出人意料的是，事实证明，核废料是一个可控问题，部分原因归结于核废料数量并不多；据美国能源部称，美国核工业产生的所有乏燃料(使用过的核燃料)用一个深度不到10码的足球场就可以埋下。[qh]
Unlike coal waste, which is of course spewed into the air we breathe, radioactive waste is stored in carefully monitored casks.[qh]
煤炭废料当然会被排放到我们呼吸的空气中，而放射性核废料则不同，它们被存放于受严密监控的屏蔽容器中。[qh]
