NYTimes Op-Ed Contributor ATI Radeon HD 4250 It Could Happen Here By FRANK N. VON HIPPEL Published: March 23, 2011
Times Topic: Japan ? Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Crisis (2011) It will be years before we know the full consequences of the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. But the public attention raised by the problems there provides an opportunity to rethink nuclear-power policy in the United States and the rest of the world ? and reduce the dangers of a similar disaster happening elsewhere.
From one perspective, nuclear power has been remarkably safe. Coal plants are much deadlier: the fine-particulate air pollution they produce kills about 10,000 people each year in the United States alone. ・・・・・・・ (1つの視点からは、原発は著しく安全だった。石炭火力発電所はずっと致命的である。 石炭火力発電所が発生する微粒子による大気汚染は、アメリカだけで毎年約一万人を殺している。)