This state of affairs is worrying, to say the least, given the severity of harm that a single serious accident can cause. The meltdown of a 500-megawatt reactor located 30 miles from a city would cause the immediate death of an estimated 45,000 people, injure roughly another 70,000, and cause $17 billion in property damage.
考虑到一场事故所可能引发的严重后果，目前的状况至少是令人担心的。一座位于市区30里外的500兆瓦反应堆一旦发生熔毁将导致4.5万人迅速死亡，7万人受伤，经济损失170亿元。