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因此，大部分的乏燃料棒依然保存在乏燃料池里。 As a result, much of it remains in utility holding pens. | ||
3月11日地震时，四号反应堆乏燃料池中的燃料棒处于活动状态。 The active rods were in that pool when the March 11 quake struck. | ||
各个乏燃料池的状态还不清楚，这种情况令人不安。 The status of the various spent fuel stashes is not clear, which is disturbing. | ||
然后，会在容器外的乏燃料里出现事故,这是在里面，这是在外面。 Then you have accidents in the spent fuel outside of containment. This is inside and this is outside. | ||
乏燃料池位于反应堆建筑的顶部，它们本应浸泡在冷却水中，但是它们的冷却系统已经损坏。 The pools, which sit atop the reactor buildings and are meant to keep spent fuel submerged in water, have lost their cooling systems. | ||
据信中透露：“乏燃料棒再处理已经进入了最后阶段，与此同时镮的武器化也正在进行。” "Reprocessing of spent fuel rods is at its final phase and extracted plutonium is being weaponised, " it said. | ||
所有这一切都是必须要做的，因为虽然就名义上而言是用过的“乏燃料”，但它们仍具有一定的危险性。 All this is necessary because, despite its name, "spent" nuclear fuel still has something of a kick. | ||
三座堆芯中心受损的反应堆的温度仍起伏不定，而乏燃料池供水系统也顶多只是被应急修复而已。 The temperature of the three reactors with damaged central cores still fluctuates and water systems for the spent-fuel pools are jury-rigged at best. | ||
所幸，乏燃料棒的辐射量及其产热量在开始几天和移出反应核之后的几周里都在不断下降。 Fortunately, the radioactivity of spent fuel—and therefore its ability to generate heat—drops fairly rapidly in the first few days and weeks after it is removed from the core. | ||
4号反应堆第一次起火时就伴随着比之前报告的更高剂量的辐射，人们怀疑这是由乏燃料泄漏引起的。 When the first fire at unit 4 was accompanied by radiation levels much higher than had been reported previously it raised the suspicion that the spent fuel had been involved. | ||
