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Germany is shutting down one of its seven remaining nuclear power plants as part of a planned phase-out of atomic energy production by the end of 2022. 德国计划在2022年底前逐步淘汰核能生产，目前该国仍有7座核电站，其中一座将被关闭。 Utility company EnBW has said it will take the Philippsburg Nuclear Power Plant off the grid at 7 p.m. Tuesday. The plant’s license to operate expires at midnight. EnBW电力公司表示，将于周二晚上7点关闭菲力普斯堡核电站。这家工厂的营业执照午夜到期。 Under Germany’s “energy transition” plan, the country aims to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy sources over the coming decades. The government agreed earlier this year to stop producing electricity from coal-fired plants by 2038 at the latest. 根据德国的“能源转型”计划，该国的目标是在未来几十年用可再生能源替代化石燃料。政府今年早些时候同意最迟在2038年停止燃煤电厂发电。 Proponents of nuclear power argue that shutting down the remaining reactors will endanger Germany’s energy security, making it more reliant on greenhouse gas-producing coal and gas and on electricity imported from neighboring countries that still have atomic plants. 核能的支持者认为，关闭剩余的核反应堆将危及德国的能源安全，使其更依赖于产生温室气体的煤炭和天然气，以及需要从仍有核电站的邻国进口的电力。 Renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power delivered over 47% of the electricity consumed from the public grid in Germany during the first six months of the year. Nuclear power accounted for about 13%, according to the Fraunhofer Institute. 今年上半年，风能和太阳能等可再生能源提供了德国公共电网47%以上的电力消耗。根据弗劳恩霍夫研究所(Fraunhofer Institute)的数据，核能约占13%。 The 1,468 megawatt reactor that’s being shut down began operation in 1984. It is located 100 kilometers (62 miles) south of Frankfurt near the French border. 正在关闭的1,468兆瓦的反应堆于1984年开始运行。它位于法兰克福以南100公里(62英里)处，靠近法国边境。 An older reactor at the same site, known as Philippsburg 1, was shut down for good in 2011, shortly after the German government agreed to phase out nuclear power in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster in Japan. 2011年，德国政府在日本福岛核电站灾难后同意逐步淘汰核能后不久，同一地点的一个较老的反应堆——腓利普斯堡1号(Philippsburg 1)被永久关闭。 Neighboring Switzerland shut down a 47-year-old nuclear plant earlier this month. 本月早些时候，邻国瑞士关闭了一座有47年历史的核电站。 On Monday, Sweden shut down one of the four nuclear reactors at its largest power station after over 40 years of operation due to a lack of profitability. Swedish news agency TT said the Ringhals 2 reactor in southwestern Sweden was permanently closed in accordance with a 2015 decision by its owners, the Swedish energy group Vattenfall and German utility Uniper. The Ringhals power station, located 40 miles south of Sweden’s second largest city of Goteborg, is one of the Nordic nation’s three nuclear power plants. 周一，瑞典关闭了该国最大核电站的四座反应堆之一，原因是盈利能力不足。瑞典TT通讯社表示，位于瑞典西南部的林盖尔斯2号反应堆已根据其所有者、瑞典能源集团Vattenfall和德国公用事业公司Uniper在2015年的一项决定永久关闭。林盖尔斯核电站位于瑞典第二大城市哥德堡以南40英里处，是北欧国家的三座核电站之一。 |
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