万花筒 2011-03-17&03-18 NBC专家澄清核辐射恐慌

 We wanna bring NBC chief science and health correspondent Robert Bazell. Bob, it's not just the Japanese people affected¹ by the radiation. We had the Pentagon report that our aircraft carriers, the one that Richard was just talking about the Ronald Reagan, sailed through a radioactive cloud and then was coded with particulate² radiation. So explain for all of us what those types of effects can possibly be for the people that were exposed.

 

Richard, I think it's a perfect example and it's not your fault, of course, at all, of hysteria of radiation. The Navy explains that the Ronald Reagan sailed and its helicopters sailed through an area where the sailors were exposed to as much radiation in a day as they might have been exposed from cosmic radiation that we all get exposed to in a month. That's far less radiation you get from a chest X-ray, about 1.000 as much as that. And it's even less radiation than you get from flying across country in an airplane. So we're talking about really tiny amounts of radiation. The things that have been released from the plant so far is a lot of concern that there could be if things go terribly wrong: a major release of radiation. And that is a big issue. But the amount of radiation that's been released so far is extremely tiny. And Ronald Reagan, don't forget, is a lot of nuclear power on there and their train to carry out nuclear power missions. So they have enormously sensitive detectors³ on that plane. And there was no sailors or anybody else outside the plant have required any kind of treatment. The only people who have been exposed to serious levels of radiation have been a few workers at the power plant. So there’s radiation and there's radiation and the fact it can be detected with extraordinary precise instruments like they have on the Ronald Reagan does not mean that a gigantic cloud has headed to Hawaii, California or any place else. It only means we have a very good ability to detect radiation. 

 

All right.Bob Bazell in Tokyo for respond, thanks so much.

1 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

2 particulate   

adj.微小的；n.微粒，粒子

参考例句：

• A special group was organized to dig up the particulate of the case.成立了一个专门小组来查明该案件的各个细节。
• Lungs retain relatively insoluble particulate material.肺脏内留有不溶解的颗粒物质。

3 detectors   

探测器( detector的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The report advocated that all buildings be fitted with smoke detectors. 报告主张所有的建筑物都应安装烟火探测器。
• This is heady wine for experimenters using these neutrino detectors. 对于使用中微子探测器的实验工作者，这是令人兴奋的美酒。 来自英汉非文学 - 科技