Fukushima is likely to stunt the appeal of nuclear power in a way similar to the accident at the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania in 1979, not to mention the far more severe meltdown of the Chernobyl reactor in 1986. If the fallout from those incidents is a reliable guide, however, nuclear power’s advocates will eventually be back.
在降低人们对核电的认可度方面，福岛事件的作用类似于1979年美国三里岛核电站事故，更不用提1986年的切尔诺贝利核电站爆炸事故了。但如果这些事故所造成的影响成为一个可靠指导的话，核能的鼓吹者最终还会卷土重来。