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四级阅读工程师抢救核反应堆

　　Overnight temperatures since the disaster have been near freezing, with survivors huddling in makeshift shelters. Hundreds of thousands of people are struggling to get food and water, and nearly two million households were without electricity.

　　Prime Minister Kan said the Japanese government will implement electrical blackouts to manage the shortage of power, beginning Monday. He added that people should conserve energy as much as possible. Analysts warn that the combination of power outages and the possibility of a temporary tax increase to fund relief efforts might hit Japanese households and businesses with an economic aftershock.

　　Growing concerns over the nuclear situation in Japan have reignited a global debate about nuclear power.

　　In Paris, Greenpeace anti-nuclear campaigner Sophia Majnoni says the situation at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi atomic plant shows that nuclear power is unsafe. The situation is really really serious because the authorities are ready to kill a reactor because they are putting water, salt water, inside the reactor, and we dont have any experience in using salt water to cool down a reactor. So we know that the authorities are ready to destroy a reactor to avoid a worst scenario. But we cant say that the worst have been avoided, she said.

　　U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman, a supporter of nuclear power and chairman of the Senates Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, has called on the United States to put the brakes on future nuclear power plants until the situation in Japan is understood.