In Europe, Fukushima prompted a media blitz of gloom and doom over nuclear energy. The German magazine Der Spiegel heralded the “9/11 of the nuclear industry” and “the end of the nuclear era,” while Spain’s leading newspaper El Pais preached that supporting “this energy [was] irrational,” and that “China has put a brake on its nuclear ambitions.”
在欧洲，福岛事件引发了媒体就核能的兴衰问题狂风暴雨般的报道。德国杂志《明镜》将福岛事件称作“核能工业的9.11事件”和“核能时代的终结”。西班牙龙头报纸西班牙国家报指出，支持“这种能源是不理智的”，以及“中国已经终止了了其核能野心”。但是事实证明这些评估是偏激的，而且大错特错。