The nuclear power industry has developed methods to deal with minor contamination at plants, she said, “but scaling up those operations for something so large is going to be very costly.

核能工业已经有成熟的方法去处理由核电站引起的较小规模的污染，但是成比例放大其处理规模的话成本是非常高的。

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The nuclear power industry has developed methods to deal with minor contamination at plants, she said, "but scaling up those operations for something so large is going to be very costly."

核能工业已经有成熟的方法去处理由核电站引起的较小规模的污染，但是成比例放大其处理规模的话成本是非常高的。

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To meet that need, utilities buy consistent always-on power from the large, cheap coal and nuclear power plants that are the backbone of the electric grid.

为了满足这一需求，公用事业单位购买稳定可用的电能总是会选择大规模而廉价的煤电厂和核电厂，它们才是电网的支柱。

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That is pretty much how large nuclear power plants operate.

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It was a key element of the deal Washington made with Pyongyang to provide North Korea with fuel for electric power plants until two large civilian nuclear stations are completed.

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From the Bush White House, they're talking about large-scale technology: oil and gas, nuclear power plants and clean coal research, which will cost billions of dollars and will take years.

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