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Explosions. Radiation. Evacuations. More than 30 years after Three Mile Island, the【C1】______crisis in Fukushima, Japan, has bro

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问题    Explosions. Radiation. Evacuations. More than 30 years after Three Mile Island, the【C1】______crisis in Fukushima, Japan, has brought back some of the worst【C2】______surrounding nuclear power — and restarted a major debate about the merits and the【C3】______of this energy source. Does nuclear energy offer a path away from carbon-based fuels? Or are nuclear power plants too big a threat? It’s time to【C4】______myth from reality.
   One myth is that the biggest problem with nuclear energy is safety. Safety is certainly a critical issue,【C5】______the tragedy in Japan is making clear. But for years, the biggest challenge to sustainable nuclear energy hasn’t been safety,【C6】______cost.
   In the United States, new nuclear construction was already slowing down even before the partial meltdown at Three Mile Island in 1979. The disaster【C7】______sealed its fate. The last nuclear power plant to come online started【C8】______power in 1996 — but its construction began in 1972. Today, nuclear power remains【C9】______more expensive than coal- or gas-fired electricity,【C10】______because nuclear plants are so expensive to build.【C11】______are slippery, but a plant can cost $5 billion. A 2009 MIT study estimated that the cost of producing nuclear energy was about 30 percent higher than【C12】______of coal or gas.
   Of course, cost and safety aren’t【C13】______. Concerns about safety lead to extensive regulatory approval processes and add uncertainty to plant developers’ calculations, both of【C14】______boost the price of financing new nuclear plants. It’s not clear how much these construction costs would【C15】______if safety fears subsided and the financing became cheaper — and after the Fukushima catastrophe, we’re unlikely to find out.
【C3】
选项 A、faults
B、obstacles
C、objections
D、drawbacks
答案D
解析 本题考查名词词义辨析及对句意的理解。A错误；B障碍；C反对；D缺点。本句的意思是，发生在日本福岛的这次危机又一次使人们开始辩论核电站的优点和缺点。
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