Nuclear fission releases tremendous amounts of energy.

核裂变释放出巨大的能量。

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Still, in regard to energy independence and greenhouse gases, the benefits of nuclear fission have slowly softened Americans' overall attitudes toward a possible nuclear renaissance.

尽管这样，公众对待核能的整体态度还是在能源主权和温室气体排放等因素的作用下逐渐软化，趋于好转。

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Now, what we are worried about in commercial nuclear power is our ability to harness the energy of a fission and this chart explains where that energy comes from.

现在，我们要担心的，在商业，核能里的是，我们能够驾驭裂变能量，的能力，这个图表解释了，那个能量是从哪里来的。

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Think of nuclear fission: it generates useful energy but if it runs out of control you get a cataclysmic explosion.

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Nuclear fission avoids using large quantities of fossil fuel for energy but is very contentious because it produces radioactive waste.

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Reactors that exploit nuclear fission (in which energy is generated by splitting uranium atoms) have produced thousands of tonnes of spent fuel and other radioactive by-products.

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