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1.This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The crisis (1) at the damaged (2) Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Station in northern Japan has raised worries(3) about radiation risks. We spoke Tuesday with Jonathan Links, an expert(4) in radiation health sciences. He is a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health(5) in Maryland.
2. Professor Links says workers within(6) the nuclear plant are the only people at risk of extremely high doses of radiation. "Of course, we don’t know what doses they've received, but the only persons at risk of acute(7) radiation effects are the workers." For other people, he says, there may be(8) a long-term(9) worry. People can get cancer from low(10) doses of ionizing radiation, the kind(11) released(12) in a nuclear accident.
3. Professor Links says scientists can use computers to quickly(13) model(14) where radioactive material has blown(15) and settled(15). Then they measure(17) how large an area is contaminated. He says if the situation is serious enough(18), officials could take steps(19) like telling people not to eat locally grown(20) food or drink the water.
4. "But that would only be the case if there was(21) a significant release and, because of wind direction, the radioactive material was blown over the area, and then settled out of the air into and onto water, plants, fruits and vegetables."
5. The reactors at Fukushima are on the Pacific coast(22). But Professor Links says people should not worry(23) about any radioactive material leaking(24) into the ocean. "Even(25) in a worst-case(26) scenario(27) accident, the sea provides(28) a very high degree(29) of dilution. So the concentration of radioactivity in the seawater(30) would still be quite(31) low."
6. Japan is the only(32) country to have had atomic bombs dropped(33) on it. That memory from World War Two would create a stronger(34) "psychological sensitivity" to radiation exposure(35), Professors Links says. Next month is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the explosion and fire that destroyed a reactor at Chernobyl in Ukraine. The nineteen eighty-six event was the world's worst accident in the nuclear power industry.
7. A new United Nations report(36) says more than six thousand cases of thyroid cancer have been found(37). These are in people who were children in affected areas of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. The report says that by two thousand five the cancers had resulted in fifteen deaths.
8. The cancers were largely caused by drinking contaminated milk. The milk came from cows(38) that ate grass(39) where radioactive material had fallen(40).
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9. The crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear energy center has raised questions(41) about the future of the nuclear energy industry. Arjun Makhijani is president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research(42) in the United States. He says the disaster in Japan is historic.
10. “We are witnessing(43) a completely unprecedented nuclear accident in that there have never been(44) three reactors in the same place(45) at the same time that have had a severe(46) accident.”
11. This week, the chairman(47) of America’s nuclear agency said there is little chance that harmful(48) radiation from Japan could reach the United States. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko also said America has a strong program in place to deal with earthquake threats(49).
12. No new nuclear power centers have been built in the United States since nineteen seventy-nine. That was when America’s worst nuclear accident happened at the Three Mile Island center in Pennsylvania. The accident began to turn public opinion against(50) nuclear energy.
13. To support more clean energy production, the Obama administration has been seeking billions of dollars in government loan(51) guarantees to build new centers. Currently(52), about twenty percent of electricity in the United States comes from nuclear energy. But critics say nuclear power is too costly and dangerous to be worth(53) further expansion.
14. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany would temporarily close seven nuclear power centers while energy policy(54) is reconsidered. The European Union is planning to test all centers in its twenty-seven member nations.
15. Developing(55) nations are less willing to(56) slow nuclear expansion. China said it will continue with plans to build about twenty-five new nuclear reactors. And India, under a cooperation agreement with the United States, plans to spend billions on new centers in the coming years
16. Japan has made nuclear energy a national priority since the nineteen seventies. Unlike(57) many major economies, Japan imports eighty percent of its energy. The Nuclear Energy Institute says twenty-nine percent of Japan’s electricity came from nuclear sources(58) in two thousand nine.The government planned to increase(59) that to forty percent by twenty seventeen.
17. Nuclear reactors supply(60) fourteen percent of global electricity. Nuclear energy is a clean resource, producing no carbon gases. But radioactive waste(61) is a serious unresolved issue(62). So is the presence of nuclear power centers in earthquake areas like the one near Bushehr, Iran.
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