VOA慢速英语--Nuclear Energy's Slow Return Hurts Japan's Power Producers

A new study shows that the Japanese nuclear industry is unlikely to reach a government target of providing at least 20 percent of the countrys energy by 2030. The study was prepared for the Reuters news agency. In Japan, eight nuclear power centers a

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Amid the recent economic downturn, demand in the U.S. is rising for small wind turbines to power people's homes. The American Wind Energy Association says sales of such turbines rose 15 percent in 2009. One man in Florida is generating his own power

China expands its oldest nuclear power plant with new unit

BEIJING, April 8 (Xinhua) -- Qinshan nuclear power plant, China's first, has finished an expansion project with a new generator unit in operation, said China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) on Sunday. The pressurized water reactor power-generatin

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Mexico has intensified efforts to find fugitive drug lord Joaquin El Chapo Guzman after he avoided capture on Saturday. The security cabinet says officials believe the drug trafficker injured a leg and his face as he made his getaway. It provided no

NPR 2009-07-02

Thousands of helicopter-borne US marines have launched a massive assault in southern Afghanistan's Helmand River valley, a Taliban stronghold and the main source of their cash crop poppies that produce heroin. NPR's Tom Bowman joins us now. Tom, wha

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05布什反对设置能源最高限价 Bush Rejects Call for Price Caps on Energy Prices Deborah Tate Los Angeles 30 May 2001 04:01 UTC President Bush has met with California's Governor Gray Davis to

Japan's Disaster Could Hurt Plans for Nuclear Energy Industr

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语经济报道。 The crisis at Japan's Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear energy center has raised questions about the future of the nuclear energy industry. Arjun Makhijani is

VOA标准英语2014--AS IT IS 2014-04-14 African Countries Want to Add Nuclear Power Centers

AS IT IS 2014-04-14 African Countries Want to Add Nuclear Power Centers Hello, and welcome to As It Is from VOA Learning English! Im Christopher Cruise in Washington. Today, we report on plans to satisfy the growing need for electricity in Africa by

VOA标准英语2008年-Britain Approves New Generation of Nuclear Powe

By Sonja Pace London 10 January 2008 The British government has announced its support for a new generation of nuclear power plants, which it says will provide a clean source of energy and help the country fight gas emissions and climate change. Oppon

VOA标准英语2012--Owner of Crippled Japanese Nuclear Plant Fights for Survival

Owner of Crippled Japanese Nuclear Plant Fights for Survival Facing tens of billions of dollars in liabilities, clean-up costs and the eventual decommissioning of its Fukushima power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Company, known as TEPCO, is in a fight

VOA常速英语2014--Africa Looks to Nuclear Power to Light Up Continent 非洲希望大力发展核电

Africa Looks to Nuclear Power to Light Up Continent 非洲希望大力发展核电 JOHANNESBURG At least three African nations are looking to add nuclear power to their grid. Kenya and Nigeria want to establish nuclear energy, and South Africa, the o

VOA标准英语2014--Kenya Pursuing Nuclear Power Despite the Risks

Kenya Pursuing Nuclear Power Despite the Risks NAIROBI Kenya is forging ahead with plans to build a nuclear power plant by 2025 as part of an ambitious development agenda. However, the project is not without its doubters, who wonder whether nuclear p

VOA标准英语2014--Harnessing Ocean Wave Power Provides Cheap Electricity 利用海洋波浪提供廉价电力和饮用水

Harnessing Ocean Wave Power Provides Cheap Electricity 利用海洋波浪提供廉价电力和饮用水 WASHINGTON An often overlooked renewable energy resource is the power of ocean waves. Scientists in California say harnessing energy from the regu

Obama Calls for One-Third Cut in US Oil Imports

President Barack Obama on Wednesday called for the United States to cut its imports of oil by one-third by 2025. That is one of several goals in the president's national energy policy. President Obama went to Washington's Georgetown University to out

2007年VOA标准英语-France Relies on Nuclear Power as Answer to Ene

By Sonja Pace Civaux, France 16 May 2007 Rising oil prices, the volatility of supplies, and need for alternative energy sources that will not add to climate change and global warming - these are issues increasingly in the public limelight, hotly deb

Clean energy sources generate more electricity in China

BEIJING, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- Sources of clean energy generated 106.8 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in July, up 31 percent from a year ago, according to figures released by the State Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC) Tuesday. During the

Japan's Crisis Batters Global Nuclear Industry

U.S. President Barack Obama says he believes nuclear power is an important source of energy in the United States. Mr. Obama said in a television interview Tuesday that nuclear plants are designed to withstand certain levels of natural disasters, incl

VOA标准英语2010年-Lithuania Shuts Down Its Only Nuclear

Photo: AP This file photo shows a technician walking along the perimeter of a nuclear reactor head at the Ignalina nuclear power plant in Visaginas, Lithuania, 15 Dec 2009 Lithuania's Soviet-built nuclear power plant was shut down late Thursday as pa

TED演讲:恐惧核能是怎样伤害环境的(2)

Now, you might wonder, Come on, how much could five percentage points of global electricity be? 现在你可能会问，拜托，全球5%的电力能有多少？ Well, it turns out to be quite a bit. 事实证明还蛮多的。 It's the equivalent of

雅思写作优秀范文精选：电力生产燃料源

The charts compare the source of electricity in Australia and France in the years 1980 and 2000. Between these years electricity production almost doubled, rising from 100 units to 170 in Australia, and from 90 to 180 units in France. In 1980 Austral